“No one bothers a biathlete to wrap an adhesive bandage around the trigger so that his finger does not stick in the cold” – coach Maksimov

Coach of the Russian national biathlon team Maxim Maximov On he spoke about the problems that athletes may encounter at the stage of the Alfa-Bank Russian Cup in Tyumen due to frost.

Initially, the prologue in Tyumen was scheduled for December 5-6, but on Sunday the SBR press service reported that the sprint races of the main competitions in Tyumen were postponed to December 9-6 due to weather conditions. The Russian Cup stage races are scheduled for December 6, 7 and 10. According to weather forecasts, temperatures of up to -31 degrees Celsius are expected in Tyumen from December 7 to 10.

— Is it true that in cold weather, the barrel of a gun expands?

– No, there will be no problem in our team, because the cartridges were fired in the cold, the batches of cartridges were selected for such a limiting temperature. No way.

— They say there may be problems with the installations?

— For installations, freezing can be critical in the sense that electronics can fail. It seems the temperature dropped to minus 22, below – they didn’t allow us to shoot here when we were in training. And athletes are simply cold: the finger freezes, because for example I ask my athletes to shoot with a bare finger so that the trigger is sensitive.

— Can your finger stick to the trigger? Has this already happened?

“It happened, but no one stops an athlete from wrapping an adhesive bandage around the trigger,” Maksimov said on .

Watch live broadcasts of the Alfa-Bank Russian Biathlon Cup on the channels of the Match holding company, as well as on the sites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru. The women’s sprint is scheduled to be broadcast on Wednesday at 8:35 a.m. (Moscow time) and the men’s sprint at 10:30 a.m. (Moscow time).