Albert Demchenko, a three-time Olympic silver medalist in luge, told that he stayed in the sport until he was 42 for the sake of the national Olympics in Sochi.
Demchenko became second at the 2006 Turin Games and also won silver twice at the 2014 Olympics. At the home Games, the athlete was 42 years old. Shortly after the Olympic Games in Sochi, Demchenko ended his sports career.
– At this moment [перед ОИ‑2014 в Сочи] I clearly understood that at that time we did not have athletes in the national team who could bring a medal to the Russian national team at the home Olympics. My participation in these Olympic Games brought the team two silver medals.
In Turin, we [с Армином Цогеллером, итальянском саночником, двукратным чемпионом ОИ] They tried to share first and second place. Then he defeated me. I came second. In Vancouver [на ОИ‑2010] we took third or fourth place. They spread out over three hundred square meters. In Sochi he took third place. There, of course, I moved away from him.
— What is sporting longevity?
“To leave your mark in history,” Demchenko said in a special report by Ekaterina Dolfin “Centenaries” on .
Demchenko is also a four-time European champion, 2004/05 World Cup winner and multiple Russian champion.
Source : MatchTV
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