General Director of the International Club Biathlon League (ILCL) and Head of the Moscow Region Biathlon Federation Alexey Nuzhdov told that Russian biathletes are inferior to the best foreign athletes both in shooting and in speed.
Russian biathletes have been suspended from participating in international competitions due to the situation in Ukraine.
— Judging by the past season and the start of summer in Krasnoyarsk, are you currently observing stagnation in Russian biathlon?
— This is a question of assessment of the criteria, opinions vary. We can pretend that there is nothing wrong, that there is no stagnation in development and that we are only progressing. But unfortunately, in sports you will not resist such slogans for long. The result, as they say, is on the scoreboard. If you look at the dry statistics, even though everyone says we need to work on it (shooting), shooting doesn’t get better every year. Unless otherwise stated.
Unlike some comrades, I’m not saying that I don’t watch international competitions, that they aren’t interesting. I’m looking. From the perspective of someone involved in the development of a sport, one must compare oneself to the best and strive to make both the athletes and the organization better than international athletes. We want to win. Athletes are not tasked with being like the strongest. For any athlete, for any sports organization, the main task is to become the best. How can you become the best if you don’t know their successes? Unfortunately, the comparison with them in terms of shooting and movement is now not in our favor. And I can’t say that the trend is positive,” Nuzhdov told .
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