"Preparing a safety net in the relay": Kaminsky about Serokhvostov's successes, Khalili's shooting and Babikov's progress

- How satisfied are you with the two past stages?

Are the results in line with your expectations?

- Everyone performs differently.

I am satisfied with Eduard Latypov.

Daniil Serokhvostov even exceeded expectations in one race.

Said Karimullah Khalili, rather not.

But, in general, it is normal.

- Do you understand what prevented Khalili?

- Shooting is a delicate matter.

Many factors could have affected.

There would be not two, but one miss in the individual race, the result would have been completely different.

I just want more stable shooting from him.

- Serokhvostov in the main team - a matter of chance or a pattern?

- It is clear that now he is lucky to be in the first team.

But those who are lucky are lucky.

Sooner or later, he would still have made it to the World Cup stages, because he showed good speed and shooting improved during the preparatory period.

In places he was very accurate.

Especially in dueling, contact training.

He performed at the level of leaders.

Now he has no stability, but this is natural.

It is developed with experience and with the volume of training, starts.

- Before the start of the season, everyone represented a completely different relay four.

Was it a force majeure for you that you had to change your roster?

- We had an understanding that for the four that played last year at the World Championships (Karim Khalili, Matvey Eliseev, Alexander Loginov, Eduard Latypov -

), we need to prepare someone for safety net.

We tried.

To be honest, we were counting on more experienced athletes such as Streltsov and Babikov.

But it turned out that Serokhvostov got to the World Cup stage and showed himself well in the relay.

Babikov, by the way, has already gotten into shape, but now there is no way to include him in the main team.

- So far no one has failed to change it?

- Yes.

It makes no sense to exclude from the composition the guys who have run only one stage and got into the top 40.

Well, I also want to check Babikov in the mountains.

We like to hang stamps.

One runs poorly in the mountains, the other in the relay.

They have not been confirmed yet.

- How did you feel when there were several anecdotal punctures at the starts?

- They are rather tragic ...

- But at the same time they are funny.

I understand that you can forget before the start not only the sticks, but also the name of the parents.

However, for the audience, this is nonsense.

- There is, of course, some irritation about this.

But, on the other hand, if we talk about the forgotten sticks of Garanichev, we know that he is a rather absent-minded person.

I understand him.

Yes, it's a shame.

He lost a lot of time due to being late and perhaps therefore shot poorly.

But at the same time, Zhenya's move was weak.

- Success of Babikov at the

IBU

- Rather the second.

It is not just that the Norwegians are taking Philip Andersen to Hochfilzen, whom Anton beat, which means that they are approximately equal in strength.

Moreover, Andersen will act instead of Johannes Dale, who ranks in the top thirty and by our standards, a replacement was not asking.

And the Norwegians are doing it, so they expect Andersen to perform better.

Therefore, we can assume that if Babikov is included in the main team, it will look good.

By and large, we were stopped only by Anton's shooting.

Well, the infection that was picked up in Khanty-Mansiysk held him back from the point of view of skiing.

Although, maybe the shooting was lame because of this.

They say that the virus affects, among other things, the nerve centers.

- What do you want to see in Hochfilzen?

- Victory, of course.

- Have you already decided on the composition for the relay?

- We assume who will be in the top four.

I will not give the names for now.

Much also depends on personal races.