“Children today are different. Sometimes you just have to grab them by the throat. » – Olympic champion Berezhnaya

Olympic champion in pairs figure skating Elena Berezhnaya believes that today’s young athletes are different from the previous generation, and the methods of working with them should also be different.

— When was coach Tamara Moskvina tougher: when she worked with you or now, when your daughter trains under her?

– It seems to me now. Children today are different, especially at 15 years old. Sometimes you just have to grab them by the throat. Especially when the coach is explaining something, wants to teach something and the athletes are sniffing and making faces. I once asked Tamara Nikolaevna if she herself was really so harmful? She replied, “You were different. » Moskvina didn’t know me at the age of 15. But at 18, it’s a completely different matter.

—At home, regarding this, do you “drip on your daughter’s brains”?

– Certainly. I constantly say: “I have to thank you for the fact that a coach like Moskvina paid attention to you.” But this is purely age-related stubbornness: “Did I sprain my leg?” But Tamara Nikolaevna says no.” She answered without hesitation: “That means she didn’t shoot well enough,” Berezhnaya was quoted as saying by RT.

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