Olympic cross-country champion Veronika Stepanova wrote in her column on that in Russian biathlon the system is designed so that athletes can earn big money.
Registration of the marriage of Olympic biathlon medalist Karim Khalili and biathlete Anastasia Goreeva took place on August 1. The wedding celebrations took place on September 29 in the Moscow region.
— I work with both Khalilis in the same organization. Yes, yes, dear colleagues, we work under contract at the Sports Training Center of the Russian National Teams. Since we work “in neighboring departments”, but at a single rate, I can tell you with absolute certainty: you cannot organize such a wedding with a salary at the central service center! And that’s exactly right: the state pays a reasonable amount so that an athlete can eat, drink and rent a modest apartment. And for everything else, go ahead and win cash prizes. Those who can.
Biathletes have every chance of saving for the wedding of their dreams! My calculations are very approximate. Theoretically, a Russian biathlete can earn more than 10 million rubles in the upcoming season just from the announced prize money. The “declared” are those who carry the winning signs and stand modestly on the podium after the race. Or immodestly – it depends on the number on the sign. In the coming season, biathletes will have not a wide choice, but a very wide choice of what to race and where to make money. Fingers crossed: the Russian Cup, the Commonwealth Cup, the national championship and the Spartakiad-2025, which is not the Spartakiad in name, but is very similar in status. For any stage of the Commonwealth Cup, a biathlete can earn more than a skier if he wins all individual races of the Russian Championship! Despite the fact that there are six stages of the Commonwealth Cup (including summer), the championship is one of them.
Last on this list of biathlon triumphs is a new tournament, the MLKB Cup. Last in age – and first in prize money. A million rubles for a victory is the level of the World Cup minus taxes! If anyone wants to think that the arrival of the strongest biathletes from Russia and Belarus in Khanty-Mansiysk in November is an accident, let them think so. And I guess when the girls saw last year that the first competition had gone off with a bang and the winners (Mr. and Mrs. Khalili, by the way) had actually won a million each, then everyone world couldn’t wait to come in 2024. . Do you judge? I don’t know. I’m jealous,” Stepanova wrote.
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