Olympic bronze medalist Yevgeny Garanichev I have always loved biathlon, everyone should be happy that at 35 he is still competing, the World Cup winner told Andrei Makovev .
In January, Garanichev took sixth place in the individual race at the Alfa-Bank Russian Cup stage in Izhevsk. Garanichev will turn 36 in February.
— What is the secret of Garanichev’s success?
— Zhenya can run forever. I had also thought about coming back. I wish Zhenya sports results, he likes it, he gets pleasure from it. He is always charged and determined. Everyone should be happy that Garanichev, at 35 years old, is still performing and showing such results.
—Have you really thought about coming back?
— It was in the first years after completion, because I felt that I still had strength and sporting ambitions, but life was already different. Sport remains such a happy past. I think that athletes are lucky, because first we live a sports life, and then we can realize ourselves in the next life, ”Makoveev told .
Makoveev retired after the 2013/14 season; he is now 41 years old.
Biathlon races as part of the Spartakiad of the Strongest will take place from February 11 to 18 in Zlatoust (Chelyabinsk region). Watch live broadcasts of the competition on Match Group TV channels, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru websites.
Source : MatchTV
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