Skier Sergei Ustyugov said he acted harsher than usual in the free sprint during the Russian Cup stage in Krasnogorsk, noting he was ready to apologize Alexander Bolshunov due to a downhill fall.
Bolshunov and Ustyugov fell in the semi-final, the three-time Olympic champion suffered a broken face, he received several abrasions.
– First there was the first contact, I pushed him a little so that he widened. Then the second or third came when we fell. The undercuts that I know how to do, I did them in training, it was not intentional. I wanted to work a little harder, but deliberately fall, hurt myself – I’m not that kind of person,” Ustyugov told reporters.
– Two incidents at the same stage of the Russian Cup, is it an accident?
– It’s different there, in the heat of the moment… You don’t have to do anything, Sasha Terentyev has won, and you’re talking about us. It’s a sport, if I didn’t want to go at the start… But I got out.
– If possible, discuss in person what happened?
– We do not have a conflict, Sanya participates in all races, I – in separate races. Today I didn’t want to compete for one of the reasons, because there is no certain basis to endure several days of racing in a row. There’s another reason I can’t tell you, you have to take care of the state. I’m happy to be out, I took fourth place in the prologue, the main thing is that they don’t put me in 30th place.
– No desire to speak with Sasha without cameras?
“I completely understand that. Sunday, he had not done it on purpose, in Kirovo-Chepetsk it was not on purpose. He works, he wants to work harder. To some extent that’s okay, but it should be on the edge of the rules. Also today. If I had a contact, I would move to the left, you have to look. If I was wrong, I apologize, I tried to act harder than in the other sprints.
Source : MatchTV
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