“I want to win, to be a leader, but I can’t say it out loud” – biathlete Kuklina

russian biathlete Larissa Kuklina said she approaches competitions with an inner self-confidence, but she tries not to loudly declare her ambitions.

Kuklina won all three races of the fourth stage of the Commonwealth Cup in Raubichi: mass start, pursuit and sprint. Also in January, the 32-year-old biathlete won the super sprint at the Russian Cup stage in Rybinsk.

“Maybe this is a success, it should be a joy for me. The strongest biathletes in Russia start here, they are all here. It will be remembered. I only had this when I was teenager.

I’m internally confident, but I can’t say it out loud. Take those starts. If you look at the analyses: a good one and I am no longer in the top three. It’s not an understatement, but I was a bit lucky. Here passed the envelope, there.

When I went to the chase, I even heard that someone was betting and said today won’t work. I felt inside that I was going to win. I want to win, to be a leader, but I can’t say it out loud.

I often remember the words of the first coach who told me as a child that I was one of those people who was not genetically built to be an athlete. He said, “I’m looking at you and I don’t understand where you got the result from. You are not technically sophisticated. Moreover, she is not genetically predisposed to this sport, to any other. The only thing you have is character,” Kuklina said on ‘s Special Reporting program.

The women’s sprint of the 5th stage of the Pari Commonwealth Cup in Raubichi will take place 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 websites. matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru Watch the program “Biathlon with Dmitry Guberniev” on January 29 at 1:00 p.m.