Men’s team coach Russia biathlon Sergei Bashkirov says the world champion Anton Babikov showed interest in leaving him from the group Yuri Kaminsky even last season.
“This year, our team has changed a bit. We were joined by Anton Babikov, who even last year expressed his interest in joining our group, but on the eve of the Olympic season, we decided that it would be more efficient for him to train in the group by Yuri Mikhailovich (Kaminsky).
This year, together with Yuri Mikhailovich, we decided that Anton could join our group. Moreover, all the same, friends and comrades with whom they are already preparing together since junior age – Maxim (Tsvetkov) and Sanya Loginov.
We were also joined by young athletes Mikhail Burundukov and Vyacheslav Maleev.
Almost at the end of the Olympic season, we have already started discussing the lists of guys that we would like to see in centralized training, with whom we would like to continue working. Some of the guys said they would like to continue training on their own with personal trainers.
In any case, the direction in the formation of the team is to see as many young people as possible, who in the future will be able to defend the honor of the country at the Olympic Games in four years,” Bashkirov said in an interview. on the RBU YouTube channel.
Last season, Babikov won a personal victory at the World Cup in Antholz and became a substitute for the Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Source : MatchTV
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