Two-time European champion Vladimir Timoshinin spoke about his career and also rated it for a solid “four”.
“I didn’t learn to swim until I was four years old. My father threw me overboard in the water. Himself stood nearby, if anything. Next to the main jumping pool, there was another pool, not too deep, in which I learned to swim. And immediately began to jump.
– I can directly imagine the legend under such an image: a double Olympic champion in rowing teaches a future participant of two Olympics in diving to swim. Although come to think of it, such a number of stellar parents is a heavy slab that rests on a child almost from birth. How did you manage not to hate the sport, but live a long and bright life in it, and even take your daughter to the top?
– To be honest, I didn’t really feel it, I was calm about everything. It seems to me that our Julia feels the weight of responsibility much more.
– To be honest, do you consider your own career successful?
– Well, for a solid “four”, so to speak.
What do you regret most often?
– About what went wrong with the Barcelona Olympics. My first Games were in Seoul, in 1988, but I was very young there, I took eighth place. In 1991 I won the European Championship, but Georgy Chogovadze knocked me out of the Olympic team. True, at the Games themselves he became the 16th …
Was it embarrassing to see?
“I didn’t even watch these competitions, there was reluctance,” RT Timoshinin quotes.
Timoshinin is a double European champion.
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Source : MatchTV
