President of the Russian Biathlon Union (RBR) Viktor Maygurov on , he explained what difficulties awaited him Karima Khalili And Daniel Serokhvostova in case of refusal to work with the main Russian national team under the leadership Yuri Kaminsky .
At the end of March, a meeting of the RBU coaching council was held in Tyumen, where it was decided to introduce the format of the main and reserve teams starting next season. Yuri Kaminsky told that he will lead the main men’s team. Khalili and Serokhvostov left Kaminsky to join Artem Istomin’s group in 2022.
— As we learned, Karim Khalili and Daniil Serokhvostov do not want to train with Kaminsky. How do you make sure everyone is happy?
“This is the first time I’ve heard of someone officially responding to us. » So far we have only sent official letters, but have not received any official response. We have other athletes ready to train with Kaminsky. Our idea is to gather the strongest into one group so that they grow first. When you train alone, you have no one to compare yourself to. The strongest must train with the strongest in order for them to grow. This is our ideology.
— Do you accept the situation that Khalili and Serokhvostov could continue training with Artem Istomin, with whom they feel comfortable?
— We do not officially allow this option, since we will not finance them at the expense of the federal center, at the expense of the Ministry of Sports. If an athlete refuses to train with the main team, as we have suggested, then he will seek his own opportunities to complete the training process. Whether this is good or bad, time will tell. This is the decision of the entire coaching council.
We had two years to experiment. There were different teams: Kaminsky, Bashkirov, Istomin, Shashilov. Time has shown that anyone can train. All coaches currently working with the teams also support our initiative. Do individual athletes have their own opinions? Great! “I, too, spent the last 3-4 years of my career training individually, joining the team and participating in the world championships,” Maigurov said on .
Source : MatchTV
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