Russian freestyle skier, bronze medalist at the Sochi Olympics Alexander Smyshlyaev spoke to about his coaching work in China.
Smyshlyaev is a bronze medalist at the 2014 Olympics and the 2015 World Moguls Championships. The freestyler ended his career in 2018. Currently, he works as a coach of the Russian national team.
— After finishing my sports career, I decided to immediately try myself as a coach. In Russia, it was not possible to immediately join a team and I was offered to work in China, first with a youth team. To which I quickly agreed in principle.
First impression: you are simply traveling alone to China, where you have no friends or acquaintances. But I joined this system quite quickly. And for about two years I worked with the youth team. Already two years before the Olympics I was added to the main team, I was an assistant to the senior coach. The contract was for four years, that is, for the Olympic cycle. Almost all coaches terminated their contracts with China after the Olympics. I received an offer from the Russian national team.
I want to live here [в России], I want my family and children to live in Russia. If there is an opportunity to work abroad, I would take it. And he would use this experience for his own purposes, to coach the Russian national team,” Smyshlyaev said in the film of the series “Faces of the Country” on .
Source : MatchTV
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