Biathlete Evgenia Burtasova She told that from the moment she was called up to the Russian Olympic team, she was sad, because she was ahead of a difficult move and competitions in unpleasant weather conditions.
The Russian arrived in Beijing during the Olympics, replacing Valeria Vasnetsova, who was in quarantine. At the Games, Burtasova performed only in the individual race, where she took 77th position. His participation in the competition was accompanied by rumors in the media about the conflict with the coaches and the team.
– You said you wanted to forget the time spent at the Olympics. What happened there?
– Oh, it’s all these infiltration matches… If you remember, there (during the Olympics) there must have been selections, even if the coaches weren’t present at all at training that day- the. They called me just before going to bed: “Can you maybe run?” It turned out to be some kind of qualifying and I had to race. In other words, if it’s qualifications, if you choose between me and Mironova, then why didn’t she run? The Swedes ran there. Well, if I beat the Swedes, would I run with the Swedes? (laughs) They told me there that I had my own plan. I just arrived and got acclimatized. I shouldn’t have run that race. I have just been thrown into hell. I saw how people go in packs, pass out and are taken away on a stretcher. It was extremely cold. I just wanted to finish this race and forget. And in the end, none of the coaches spoke to me, there was no contact. Only a few times before the race: “What, how?” And that’s all. I myself came to training, I skated. It didn’t matter how I arrived and left. It was like there was a team there, and I didn’t sew a tail to a mare.
I didn’t want to go there at first. When they said I was going there, the whole team was happy, and I sat sadly alone, realizing that it would be a lunatic asylum (laughs). Right from the start, they took my brains out, I had to do one thing or another. I don’t have a permit, I can’t go here to do a coronavirus test here and then go do the paperwork there.
Then they said that a mega-operation was carried out to deliver Burtasova to the Olympics. No, I have completely different information. My region went to the trouble of asking my personal sponsor to buy me a ticket from Prague to Moscow. Permission for weapons was granted by the Novosibirsk region. The SBR did not have time to do this, even though it was five days. I just want to forget. I didn’t fight with anyone. As it was, so it was. Well, I went there as a passenger, yes. I am told that I participated! Well, our athletes have different ideas about the Olympics: either you’re going to fight or you’re a passenger. I really don’t want to be a passenger. Yes, the Olympics are the main goal and the dream, but in the end, it turned out that you almost gave up on those same Olympics (laughs).
Source : MatchTV
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