“It is with children that everything is fine with us.
At the youth championships of the country for children under 18, records are constantly recorded in the number of participants.
Sometimes, 800 people came, but these are the best, those who passed the selection.
But then they all need to be kept in sports, and here problems arise.
We lose a lot of athletes during the transition from youth to juniors, and then youth.
They don’t reach the national team, ”Ter-Avanesov said in an interview with RT.
In his opinion, such children should be paid more attention and supported more, since they will be the future of this type of country.
“Therefore, now there are proposals to hold national championships for children of an earlier age, not from the age of 16, as now, but already at 14-15.
By the way, here, at the Athletics Week, competitions were organized for this age category, and this is very cool.
Even Belarusian children came to us.
Until the age of 15, they have the right to play with us, and then the sanctions apply due to the suspension of the ARAF membership in World Athletics, ”the specialist added.
Earlier, Ter-Avanesov assessed the prospects of his daughter and.
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head of the VFLA Irina Privalova.