Three-time Olympic champion Irina Rodnina explained why not all athletes manage to open up to figure skating.
Former figure skater mom Diana Mukhametzyanova published an entry on social networks, where she announced that her daughter was ending her career, in particular because of psychological violence.
“It’s a tough sport. Difficult to coordinate, and if coordinated, it means psychologically difficult. There are no pills for courage and for quadruple jumps. There is a lot of competition, Rodnina told .
– Champions can only be bred with a hard hand?
– To achieve results, there must be the most severe discipline and crazy loads – physical and psychological. But a person must also have the ability to do so. For some reason, we believe that anyone who goes to sports school and plays sports every day is a professional athlete. I mean, our sports journalism hasn’t explained to its readers what a professional athlete is.
I think it’s a sport that gets so much attention, it’s not by chance. It is no coincidence that in sports there is an increase in the age of admission of athletes to competitions. At first it was from 15 years old, now – from 17 years old.
Mukhametzyanova, paired with Ilya Mironov, won silver at the 2020 Youth Olympics and, in the 2019/20 season, silver at the Junior Grand Prix Final.
Source : MatchTV
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