Biathlete Nikita Porshnev it is unlikely that it will be possible to return to Russian national team and become its leader, and ending a career after an unsuccessful performance is not very pleasant, the four-time Olympic champion told Alexander Tikhonov .
On Friday, Porshnev took 106th place in the sprint of the second stage of the Alfa-Bank Russian Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk. He was fined for not taking the second clip for filming. After the race, the 27-year-old biathlete, who was not part of the Russian national team, told that he had decided to end his professional career.
— It’s not very pleasant to end your career with such a result, but it’s the athlete’s decision. If he felt there was a chance of doing better, that would be another question. I don’t know if it’s emotions or something else, because someone else’s soul is darkness. He is the master of his own destiny.
I don’t think Nikita can become a leader in the Russian team. How old is he? 27? At the age of 27, after the third victorious Olympic Games, I was kicked out of the USSR national team because of my age! I fought with my coach for another 4 years for the right to compete and won my fourth gold medal at the Olympics, proving that I was right,” Tikhonov told .
Porshnev is the 2019 World Championship bronze medalist in the relay race, the 2022 European Championship silver medalist in the sprint and the 2019 Universiade winner in the 20 kilometer individual race. The athlete has been married to biathlete Anastasia Morozova since 2019. In July 2022, a daughter, Maya, was born in the family.
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