Double Olympic champion Evgeny Rylov said he saw no point in obtaining neutral status to compete in the World Short Course Swimming Championships.
The World Championships will take place in December in Budapest. According to the current rules, Russian athletes will only be able to participate in this tournament in neutral status and with a limit on the number of applications per distance.
— Have you watched the Olympics?
— I watched the 200m backstroke. That’s all.
— Andrei Gennadievich Shishin said that the results were not very good.
“I also thought it would be faster.”
— Even after the first few days, when it became clear that many were not swimming according to their personal results?
– Yes, most of them were in a strange state. There were those who swam very fast, but many did not really achieve the best results. Average, then. Usually, there is more of something “extra” at the Olympics. The men’s 100m breaststroke was the worst thing that could have happened.
— Did your heart hurt while watching the Olympics, did your soul hurt?
– What? According to my personal result, the gap is one second. This is a lot. In Yekaterinburg, I lost the first place at the Olympics by 0.4 seconds. I think everyone understands that if it were a head-to-head, I would not give up the distance. And the person who started next to me would have been scared. I like to exert moral pressure on people.
— Do you want to participate in the Short Course World Championships?
– Nobody is waiting for me there. They don’t like me there and nobody needs me there. I don’t see any point in getting a neutral status, “Rylov told .
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