Presenter and commentator at Dmitry Guberniev said that for him the decision of the Russian Biathlon Union (RBR) to return to the format of the main and reserve teams is strange.
Earlier, the head of the press service of the RBU, Sergei Averyanov, said that the coaching council decided to introduce the format of the main and reserve teams starting from the 2024/25 season. Last season, biathletes of the Russian national team trained in the groups of Mikhail Shachilov, Artem Istomin, Yuri Kaminsky and Vladimir Bragin.
— The SBR’s decision to return to the main and reserve team format seems strange to me. If we competed in World Cups and IBU Cups, then such a decision would be obvious. From now on, the national team institute only concerns athletes from a support point of view. We see how often collections lose early on. Take the final pursuit race in Tyumen: Sola won the race, followed by Shevnina and Slivko third. That is to say a Belarusian and two girls who are not part of the national team.
Another strange decision is to organize three stages in Khanty-Mansiysk. As Victor Maigurov said, you have to pray that there is no frost there. I hope our friends at SBR understand what they are doing. But anyway, as often happens, at the end of the season and before the start of the next one, they will have a million questions,” Guberniev told .
Russian athletes have been suspended from participating in competitions under the auspices of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) since 2022.
Source : MatchTV
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