Olympic speed skating champion Svetlana Zhurova believes that a career break for the 2014 Games medalist Olga Fatkulina can be positive for an athlete’s development, but the key is that she has support when she returns to the team.
Earlier, Fatkulina told that she will miss the 2022/2023 season.
– I left for a year and a half, or even more. Outside of training, competitions, outside of the national team, outside of everything. My age was already serious enough. Such departures at this age are generally considered critical, but even in such circumstances it is possible to come back, lose the weight gained and achieve better results than before leaving. The benefits were clear. Some technical errors can disappear, because when you do not run for a long time, to some extent you start almost from scratch, but at the same time you already have experience and understanding. We have a lot of technical moments – the bad technical moments have been completely forgotten.
But the hardest thing about coming back is when you stop believing you can come back. I had those who believed in it and there were those who didn’t believe in it at all, and they still stung me with it. You have to give a chance to come back, but at the same time you also have to understand that no one will give up on you. There should be a chance, and the rest is up to you, Zhurova told .
Source : MatchTV
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