2022 Olympic Biathlete Triple Bronze Medalist Edward Latypov believes that at this time he could show good results at the World Cup if Russian athletes were allowed to participate in international competitions.
On Thursday, Latypov won the sprint for the fifth stage of the Commonwealth Cup in Belarus. Russian biathletes are currently suspended by the International Biathlon Union (IBU) from international competitions, including the World Cup, due to the situation in Ukraine.
– What are your impressions of the race?
– It’s pretty good. The race went well. While standing, I rushed a little with the first shot, then worked well, it turned out to close the targets. Today was a pretty tight fight. I worked until the end in difficult weather conditions, it started to snow and the track was already broken. For today, an excellent result, we are working further. There are two more races to come, we have to show the same stable result.
– How happy was today’s victory and gave strength to continue the fight for the Commonwealth Cup?
– In any case, victory is always happy, it’s nice to show a good result both for yourself and for the whole country, family, fans. Of course, this is an incentive to continue the fight. We still have a few races left.
– Yesterday (coach of the Russian biathlon team Yuri) Kaminsky said that now you will fight for medals at the World Cup. Agree?
– Partially agree. But we’re in the dark anyway now because we don’t know how foreign rivals work. The only thing is that we can watch on TV how they work. You can’t compare feelings. And according to my inner feelings, of course, I can fight. I would have had good results at the World Cup now, ” correspondent reports Latypov’s words.
The Commonwealth Cup women’s sprint is on Friday. The live broadcast of the race will start at 10:40 a.m. Moscow time on the channel, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru websites. Watch the program “Biathlon with Dmitry Guberniev” on January 29 at 1:00 p.m.
Source : MatchTV
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