President of the Russian Ski Federation and three-time Olympic champion Elena Vyalbe in an interview with , she said that in big cities there was a problem with ski slopes for athletes and that the Russian national team also needed a base in the highlands.
The forum “Russia is a sports power” ends on Saturday in Ufa.
— How equipped are you with ski facilities? Is it necessary to build new facilities?
— I’ve been talking about it for 14 years. First there was Vitaly Mutko, then Pavel Kolobkov, then Oleg Matytsin, and now the fourth minister (of Sports) has arrived – Mikhail Degtyarev. During the entire “winter”, there is not a single training center in the highlands. Yes, we can afford to come to Sochi, to Laura, but the altitude to prepare there is small, it doesn’t make much difference to the weather. We must (train) at least at an altitude of 1800 meters.
Now there was a proposal from the Ministry of Sports in Karachay-Cherkessia, but there is a hotel there at an altitude of 2150 meters – it is impossible, athletes will not live at this altitude. That’s the main thing.
Thank God the regions are listening to us. I tell them we don’t need monumental glass and concrete buildings, we need simple modular bases. In general, we have places to hold competitions, a circle has formed, but to organize smaller competitions where children could come and ski, we need a good sports component, namely the ski slopes, which are melting before our eyes, especially in big cities. . In Moscow, I don’t even know where I can perform. Maybe in New Moscow they will find something for us. Where we used to ride and train, many tracks have been lost because no one recorded them for themselves. Today it’s all high-rise buildings and cottage villages. But in general, it’s a sin for me to complain about the conditions.
— Have you discussed this subject with Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyarev?
– Not yet. As Mikhail Vladimirovich said at the forum, he has not yet managed to “winter”. We said, “Well, thank God. » (Laughs). Just a joke, of course. But we’re now in the middle of the season, so we didn’t want to be disrupted in any way. I have good contacts with the minister, both when he was chairman of the Duma sports committee and when he worked as governor of the Khabarovsk Territory. There were problems, we solved them together. I hope we will continue to work normally in the future,” Vyalbe told .
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