Double Olympic biathlon champion Dmitry Vasilyev told that there was no need to draw serious conclusions about the Russians’ performance at the start of the season.
On Sunday, the Belarusian team won the mixed relay at the first stage of the Alfa-Bank Russian Biathlon Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk. The Belarusian team, for which Ksenia Vorobey, Dinara Smolskaya, Maxim Vorobey and Dmitry Lazovsky competed, ran the relay in 1 hour 6 minutes 45.8 seconds. The KhMAO-Yugra team finished in second place (Ekaterina Moshkova, Victoria Metelya, Alexey Vagin, Nikita Porshnev) – a gap of 0.2 seconds. The top three were completed by the team from the Sverdlovsk region (Anastasia Shevchenko, Irina Kazakevich, Saveliy Konovalov, Vasily Tomshin) – a gap of 32.6 seconds.
— Let’s not forget that the Belarusian national team is the team of the whole country and we act as regions. This is the main point that determines the outcome. If we had created a Russian team, the result would have been completely different. So there is nothing surprising here. But even in this configuration, our guys create struggles and rivalries. It’s cool. Well, second: it’s only the beginning of the season. There is no need to expect exceptional results. And often, even leaders fail. Therefore, here… We must take this calmly and continue to observe the development of events.
Here it is very important to take into account that someone immediately succeeds at the beginning of the season, like Serokhvostov, he is usually spectacular. And someone else is still rocking, the same Khalili. It looks like he successfully ran away “for the money”, but now something is not so good. The start of the season is therefore always crumpled. There is no need to draw conclusions here. Until January, you can calmly treat the beginnings of December, ”Vasiliev told the correspondent.
The second stage of the Russian Cup will also take place in Khanty-Mansiysk from December 6 to 8.
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