Sports Director of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (VFLA) Yuri Borzakovsky believes that the silver medalist of the Olympic Games Angelique Sidorova and Olympic champion Maria Lasitskene it is important to be ready at any time to return to the international scene and prove that they are the best.
Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion Maria Lasitskene won the high jump at the Russian Championships in Cheboksary with a score of 1.94 meters. In the winner’s status, Lasitskene took a height of 2 meters on the third attempt.
Sidorova won gold in the pole vault at the Russian Championships with a score of 4.91 meters (the best result of the season in the world and a record of the Russian championships).
It is difficult for me to talk about it, because I have never been in such a situation. In today’s realities, it seems to me that it is more of a coaching task. Take Anzhelika with her mentor Svetlana Abramova: in Cheboksary they showed the best result of the season in the world, and that’s great. Yes, their own immediate future does not depend on them at all, but, on the other hand, they still prove that they are the best in the world. Now it is very important to be ready at any time to enter the international scene and demonstrate your high level there. Sidorova and Abramova are ready for this. The same – Masha Lasitskene. She jumped her two meters. I think if it was in a more serious rivalry, she would have jumped even higher,” Borzakovsky told RT.
In early March, the World Athletics Association (World Athletics) decided to withdraw Russian and Belarusian athletes from participating in international competitions due to the situation in Ukraine.
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