Biathlete Evgeny Emerkhonov told that Sergei Bashkirov’s group does not have a clear leader and, perhaps, he is not needed, but part of the team calls him captain.
Emerkhonov has been training in the reserve group of the Russian national team under Bashkirov since the 2024/25 season. The team also includes Daniil Usov, Denis Irodov, Oleg Domichek, Nikita Blinov and Leonid Kulguskin.
— In the Bashkirov youth group you are the oldest. Do you feel an additional responsibility because of this?
– No, I don’t feel it. All the guys are more or less the same age, there is a two-year difference, it doesn’t change much. Everyone is at the same level, everyone feels good now and I hope everything will be good in the future too.
— This summer, Usov said that there was no leader in your team. Has anything changed now?
“They are all the same and push each other, they all have strengths.”
There is no leader, we have a captain. Guys say I’m not the captain, but someone says I am (smile).
– And if not you, then who?
– That’s all (laughs).
— Which approach is closer to you: when the team has a leader that everyone follows, or like today, when everyone is equal?
— Let’s say that in Kaminsky’s group, Eduard Latypov is the leader and captain of the team, at certain moments he correctly influences certain episodes and actions. In general, I just added that one does not feel that a leader is needed. It seems to me that it is even more interesting when everyone is young, ambitious and hot-blooded, “Emerkhonov told .
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