"Our biathletes are poorly educated": Vasiliev about the relay races in Oberhof, the scandal around Pavlova and the persecution of Eliseev

"Pavlova showed an absolute lack of discipline"

- After the women's relay, Evgenia Pavlova, who went to the penalty loop, said that she should not have run the race, and also complained that the coaching staff of the national team was not interested in the state of the wards.

Were you surprised by her statement?

- Of course it's not normal.

Such statements cannot be made publicly.

Thus, Pavlova showed her bad manners and absolute lack of discipline.

If you don't like something, go to the trainer and talk with him privately, rather than publicly complaining that you are not being consulted.

If it's hard for Evgenia, let him sit on the sofa at home and wait for it to feel better.

Since you came to the World Cup, you need to grit your teeth and compete for the country.

- But Pavlova is not the first time marked by such statements ...

- I repeat, biathletes in the Russian national team are poorly educated.

They should not allow themselves to loose their tongue like that.

Well, what is it ?!

Complete lack of discipline and communication between coaches and athletes.

This should not be, because discipline is the foundation of everything.  

- That is, Pavlova's words may indicate not the most ideal atmosphere in the team?

- This is a wake-up call.

You can do whatever you want, but there will be no result if there is no discipline within the team.

- Can we say that Evgenia is not psychologically ready for relay races?

- Perhaps this is really the case.

I will assume that Pavlova simply should not run the first stage.

Of course, I should have tried it in practice, but remember the single mixed relay.

Evgeniya failed her work on the shooting range and went to two penalty circles.

Despite this, she was given the role of "butcher".

We see that the first stage she is not ready to run.

The biathlete seems to be considered a good shooter, but enters the penalty loop.

In this case, calling her a sniper is difficult.

The coaching staff should think about a different arrangement of athletes in the four.

- But, it turns out, there is no one to replace her?

- At least Pavlova can be given another stage.

And on the first one you need to try the same Larisa Kuklina.

You look, something will come of it.

- Is the Russian national team capable of strengthening Tatyana Akimova, who won two sprint races at the

IBU

Cup, including in the relay

?

- Honestly, I do not understand why she is not taken to the main team.

It's a mystery to me.

You might think that the national team has a very wide bench.

After all, there is no one to change people.

If, God forbid, someone gets sick, the coaching staff will have to seriously smash their heads.

Moreover, we must not forget that the program of the planetary championship includes three relay races: classic, mixed and supermix.

The same girls will not take them all out, besides, they still have to run their personal races.

So why not call Akimov?

Maybe we don't know something ...

- Do you believe that they will take her to the World Cup?

- I'd like to believe in it.

In any case, the final decision will be made by the coaching staff.

True, they are now waiting for the SBR leadership to do it for them.

The senior coach of the women's team Mikhail Shashilov said so.

I have not heard this before.

It turns out that people want Viktor Maygurov to tell them whom to take on the team.

Vladimir Drachev allowed himself such a thing, but this, of course, is completely absurd.

In fact, Shashilov wants the head of the SBR to do his job.

- In general, if you do not take into account Pavlova, did the performance of the Russians in the relay at the stage in Oberhof leave you a positive impression?

- I can't say that.

Firstly, they entered the penalty loop, and secondly, they failed to climb into the top three.

But there is no particular negative.

- Do you believe that domestic biathletes will win a medal in the relay at the World Cup?

- There is potential, and in Oberhof they proved it.

The Russians lost 42.5 seconds to the Germans.

It took Pavlova so much time to go through the penalty loop and work with additional cartridges.

"Eliseev has a problem season" 

- Not without a mini-scandal in the men's team.

Matvey Eliseev's wife accused her husband's

Instagram

followers of

writing nasty things to him.

- As Professor Preobrazhensky said: "Do not read Soviet newspapers until lunchtime."

I would like to advise Matvey and his wife the same.

Why pay attention to all the stupidity that appears on the Internet?

This once again proves that our biathletes lack professionalism.

After all, a normal professional would not even read this nonsense.

People who want to blow off steam come to social networks.

Often they themselves do not succeed in everything in life.

Therefore, haters are trying to at least declare themselves on the Internet.

And Eliseev's wife also answers them.

This is complete nonsense!

- Was it worth removing Eliseev from the first stage at all?

- You still need to experiment.

The starting stage is very difficult.

If you start “lighting” from the first meters, you will not be 100% strong enough for the last circle of strength.

But Matvey as a whole has a problem season.

I suspect he was doing something wrong during the preparatory period.

See how much he regularly loses at the finish line.

This is a clear flaw in the summer.

- Isn't it worth waiting for an improvement in Matvey's functional state for the World Cup?

- I really, really doubt it.

Another thing is Alexander Loginov.

We must not forget that a tragedy happened in his family - his father died.

Sasha just needs time to come to his senses and concentrate, maybe not on the entire program of the planet's championship, but on some individual races.

- Can you call a mistake the decision to entrust the starting stage of the relay in Oberhof to Kirill Streltsov?

- It was impossible to put on the first stage, one of the most difficult, relatively young guy who just appeared in the national team.

He came to the World Cup for the first time, and he was made a "kicker".

Imagine how difficult it is psychologically.

This is a gross mistake of the coaching staff.

Who could have thought of this?

Fantastic non-professionalism.

As a result, the guy "burned out" even before the start, and then quickly "ate" at a distance.

- Eduard Latypov again confidently coped with his work.

Can we say that the national team finally got a good finisher?

- Today, yes.

It has proven itself to be excellent.

Coaches need to put him on the last stage, if Edward, of course, is all right with his health.

This segment suits him just perfect.

- That is, it is psychologically easier for Loginov to work in third?

- Of course.

Alexander has long shown that the role of a finisher is not very suitable for him.

Remember how many misses he made with the last shots in the relays.

At the third stage, everything is going pretty well for him.

- After the failure in Oberhof, we are unlikely to see Streltsov in the relay four.

Who can take his place?

- Of course, Anton Babikov.

I've been talking about this for a long time.

It should be tried at the first stage.

This is an experienced seasoned athlete, world champion in the relay.

Let Anton not demonstrate high speed, but reliably works on the firing lines.

This is very important for the "slaughterer".  

- Are the Russians able to compete for an award in the relay at the World Cup?

- I would like to believe in it, and there are chances.

The Russian national team is able to take a medal in both the men's and women's relay races.

As for personal races, everything will depend on a number of factors.

For us, all the stars must converge: first of all, the ideal work on the lines, a more or less decent move and the mistakes of our opponents.

- At the stage in Oberhof, Russian biathletes showed good speed in personal races, but after a week there was no trace of it.

The coaching staff explains everything by acclimatization after training in the mountains of Sochi.

- This speaks of their lack of professionalism.

Why then did you run into the mountains if you knew that the guys would begin to re-acclimatize?

I have continuous questions, and I understand that I will never get an answer to them.

We in the community of former biathletes communicate with each other and sometimes do not understand what is happening.

Everything is illogical.

Let them keep the song about acclimatization for themselves.

- Do you believe that on the eve of the championship of the planet, some of the domestic biathletes will add functionally?

- I want to believe.

The main task of the Russian national team is not to surprise at a single stage, but to come up in good shape to the World Cup.

Take the same Swedes.

They looked great at the start of the season, but now they're blown away.

And what's the point in that?