Commentator Dmitri Guberniev said that he considered the draft calendar of the Russian Biathlon Union (RBU) for the 2023/24 season to be balanced, and also invited biathletes and skiers to organize joint starts.
– The fact that there are fewer races is fair. It seems to me that the calendar was overloaded. I hope the number of races will not affect the prize fund, which of course should be increased. In this regard, it was strange for me to hear that when the athlete committee stood up, the first interview was given by a colleague Maygurov, and not by one of the athletes. Latypov said something, but the rest of the athletes remained silent. Let’s fight for our rights, for the prize money. Don’t sit down. The SBR has money and it is necessary to influence the parent organization.
I really hope that now the athletes will not miss one Russian competition, preparing for another. It is clear that we are modeling an approach to the Olympics, where apparently we will not go, but you cannot offend the fans and impoverish the television image. It would be good to look at the calendar of skiers so that biathletes could participate in some ski competitions, which Latypov could not do, because the calendar was overloaded. In general, it was possible to do something jointly, but you have to move from the era of Nikolai Pavlovich Romanov to the 21st century. Biathletes here are more modern than skiers, if we talk about the federation.
Too bad there is only one stage in Minsk, because I would like to spend more time in this beautiful capital. Let’s see how Zlatoust, the city of great athletes, will be ready: Lydia Skoblikova, Yuri Borodavko, Svetlana Ishmuratova, Anatoly Karpov. I hope there will be suitable weather in February. At the start of the season, two stages in Khanty are doing well. It remains to pray that the weather will have mercy and that there will be no severe frosts. In general, the schedule is balanced, although it seems strange to me that summer starts are included in the Commonwealth Cup rankings,” Guberniev told Metaratings.ru.
According to the project, the season begins with the Commonwealth Cup on September 5 and ends in April 2024.
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