“Our duet with Semyon Pavlichenko distinguished himself not only on the track, but also on a pedestal. We are standing, which means we are preparing to listen to our anthem, and then suddenly we turn on someone else, we turn around, look at Willie Wilmann (employee of the International Luge Federation - RT.), But he doesn’t know what's going on, ”the athlete wrote in his Instagram .
According to him, the Russians did not fuss for a long time in such a situation, and immediately took a microphone and sang a hymn.
“Everyone was delighted, even at the hotel, people come up and say:“ Wow, cool, the most incredible award we saw. ” Thanks to all the fans for their support, everything is for you, ”the message of Repilov says.
Recall that the Russian luge sang sang the country a cappella because of technical problems.
Pavlichenko won the European Championship in the World Cup. Repilov took second place.
Earlier the coach of the Russian national team in luge, Albert Demchenko, said that the anthem was performed from the heart, and not for popularity.
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Publication from Roman Repilov (@ roman.repilov) 9 Feb 2019 at 9:05 PST