Sergei Zhukov’s daughter talks about the Match TV Star Race: “It was incredibly difficult. I wanted to play, but I realized I couldn’t let my partner down.

The daughter of the singer of the group “Hands Up” Sergei Zhukov, Veronika, said that she experienced difficulties during the “ Race of Stars” biathlon, noting that she thought about refusing to participate in the final race.

The “ Race of Stars” biathlon took place on Sunday at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. The race took place in the form of a relay, each participant completed two laps and worked on two shooting ranges. Zhukova ran in tandem with former biathlete Andrei Makoveev, they took the final third place. World champion Ekaterina Yurlova-Perkht and head of the Moscow sports department Alexey Kondarantseva won, Olympic speed skating champion Svetlana Zhurova and former biathlete Dmitry Malyshko came second.

— It was incredibly difficult, my breathing said “goodbye” to me in the first lap. The only thing I dreamed of was falling, breathing for a few minutes, getting back up and calmly moving forward. But it didn’t happen like that because we had a race.

After the first race, I sat here, out of breath. I think: “Mom, tell me I refuse. » But I thought it was terrible, ugly, because you’re running in pairs and letting your partner down. “I got up, tried hard, came third – a good result,” Zhukova said on .

— Nika and I worked on how to pass the baton and how it should start moving. We discussed how she would shoot. She shoots perfectly in a prone position, in a standing position it’s a difficult shot, we said to ourselves that we had to shoot quickly. I am proud of Nika. I made it easier for him. Before the final race, she lost her skis and poles, but she did not lose her mind and performed with dignity, ”Makoveev noted.

Veronica’s brother, singer Angel Zhukov, said he was “incredibly worried about her and was proud of his sister”, for whom it was “a big breakthrough, a step forward.”