Biathlon world champion Anton Shipulin On he said that the coaching team could exclude him from the Russian national team for the sprint race at the Olympic Games in Sochi.
Shipulin took fourth place in the sprint, missing his last shot while standing. Ole Einar Bjoerndalen won.
— There was a risk that you wouldn’t run the sprint at all at the Olympics. Based on the results of the control training, you did not qualify for the top four.
— At that time, I was the leader of the team at the last world championships with a medal. There was a meeting a day or two before the sprint. Our team sits down and begins to announce that Malyshko, Ustyugov, Garanichev will participate in the sprint, and for the fourth person, either Loginov or Shipulin.
I was then in shock, even furious. I started asking questions. Barnashov began to calm me down. They said that after the meeting I should stay with Loginov. I didn’t understand why do this, why Loginov and I oppose each other. But there was no way out. I said everything to his face, very harshly and obscenely. How can someone who deserves results not be included in the sprint at the Olympics. In the end, they put me in fourth place,” Shipulin said on the “Gromko” show on .
The Sochi Winter Games took place from February 7 to 23, 2014.
Source : MatchTV
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