Skiers’ victories at the Russian Cup stages of the new season will not be encouraged financially, the president of the Russian Ski Competition Federation (FLGR) told Elena Vialbé.
Previously, had one of the options for distributing the Russian Biathlon Union (RBU) prize budget for the 2022/23 season. According to the document, biathletes will earn 250,000 rubles for first place in individual races and 62,500 rubles for coaches; for second place – 200,000/50,000; for the third – 150,000/37,500. commentator Dmitry Guberniev said that such indexation is not available to skiers and during the season they “will work without prize funds . Or for a few pennies. Olympic ski champion, columnist Veronika Stepanova on the Voice of Biathlon podcast said the following: “Incentive is money, prizes. Earn money like at the stadium (World Cup) – and we won’t get anywhere.”
– They (SBR) are a rich federation, they can afford it, and in cross-country skiing they will run for medals. We don’t have the funds, I don’t know where the biathletes get the funds from,” Vyalbe said.
– To what extent will skiers be interested in competing?
– Why do our athletes only have to run for the money?
Earning money is an important…
– If they only want to run for the money, they need football, not skiing.
Source : MatchTV
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