Biathlete Alexander Kornev told that he was physically and psychologically tired after participating in the prologues before the second stage of the Russian Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk.
The prologue is a pre-start competition organized for the first time by the SBR before the main program of the Alfa-Bank Commonwealth Cup, Championship and Cup of Russia competitions. Athletes without rifles competed in the elimination rounds, starting with the quarterfinals. In the decisive 100 meter race, Kornev was faster than Denis Irodov.
— How would you rate your physical condition during the race yesterday and today?
“It’s still a bit difficult, I don’t know what’s causing it.” From race to race, I will accelerate. Now, there is power in the movement, but there is nothing so united that brings it all together in a system. I would like to show good technique, but my functional condition is not yet good enough. 60 percent.
— Did your victory in the 100 meters in the prologue somehow affect your condition?
– Naturally, this is the case. I don’t know the others, but it influenced me. I’m a pretty muscular athlete. There was an adrenaline rush, and 100 meters is unusual work for us. I poured out, and then there was devastation, both psychological and muscular. It’s only today that I started to take a step back, but with each race it will be better. Maybe I missed something when recovering from sprints, so here it is.
– What to do next? There will be prologues before the next steps.
“We’ll talk to the coaches about how to approach them, how to recover from them. If you approach it wisely, everything will be fine.
— Wasn’t Yuri Mikhailovich Kaminsky particularly pleased with your state after the prologues?
— Yuri Mikhailovich said it was an experiment. So we looked at what would happen in order to draw new conclusions,” Kornev told .
In the sprint of the Russian Cup stage, Kornev finished 25th, and in the pursuit he took ninth place.
On Sunday, December 3, mass starts will take place among men and women, live broadcast of the races will begin at 8:45 a.m. (Moscow time) on the channel, as well as on the sites sportbox.ru and matchtv.ru. .
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