It's a funeral. How Akimova showed real Russian biathlon. Tatyana Akimova: “It would be ugly to train with the national team in a light mode, knowing that I am preparing for pregnancy Performance in the IBU Cup

The Russian biathlon team completed its performances in individual disciplines on Saturday, and there is only one race ahead, the mixed relay. No one made it into the men’s mass start, and for other relay races we simply don’t have enough people. And the women's mass start sounded like a parable: two Russians took first and last places there.

A person with a reputation as a supposed sniper, she missed one of the milestones five times and finished the race 30th out of 30 participants. And she won. The trouble, however, is that all three golds (and a bunch of other medals) of Anton Shipulin’s sister at three (!) Olympics went not to Russia, but to Slovakia.

Now we can no longer find traces of who at one time did not keep young Kuzmina and gave the super-athlete to a foreign, and even not biathlon, state. It would be nice to “deal with and shoot” people who have shown blatant lack of insight and unprofessionalism (c) - but as always, the dock is empty, or rather, Mrs. Collective Irresponsibility is sitting there.

Here's what Kuzmina herself said in one of her old interviews:

“I think that in Russia I would not have been able to achieve a medal. After the birth of a child and a family, it was difficult for me, at that time not yet the number one of the national team and not an Olympic champion, to return. I did not feel support. For six months we were looking for someone to help, but in the end, being very disappointed, we went to another country.”

That's how it is, guys. Kuzmina didn’t have any patrons in the regions or among venerable specialists, they didn’t push her, they didn’t believe in her talent - or maybe they deliberately turned a blind eye to it as a result of, frankly, corruption schemes, the desire to make money on completely different athletes. And she just left. In my opinion, there is a real malfeasance on the part of those who were responsible for the present and future of Russian biathlon. And instead of a top biathlete, we got a team of mediocrity.

And Kuzmina’s words: “In Russia I could not achieve a medal” are another verdict on Russian biathlon. They make you think: how many new Kuzmins, how many Russian Fourcades have we quietly lost.

Some will say that there is no demand for Tatyana Akimova, one of two Russian biathletes at the 2018 Games. But in my opinion, there is - she was preparing for the Olympics, she came and shows exactly what she is capable of. But it turns out she’s not capable of almost anything. Although about a year ago, when Akimova performed successfully at the World Cup stages, it was she who was considered by many to be the leader and hope of the women’s team. Yes, her teammates were not invited to the Games - however, biathlon is first and foremost an individual sport, and no one stopped Akimova from fighting the same way as skiers do, also deprived of a whole group of stars.

The Great One may well be biased (her daughter competes on the biathlon team), but it’s hard to argue with her statement about Akimova. Tatyana, according to Reztsova, does not want to work on increasing her speed and is simply ruining her own chances. The time of snipers in biathlon has passed: the speed of the legs and skis decides, and we see that even with a zero, Akimova barely gets into the top twenty in the sprint... And as they say, even here at the Olympics there are enough problems with the athlete’s behavior: let’s say, she demands special conditions for herself and procedures without which he “can’t cope.” Apparently, the procedures still did not help.

However, who knows. If Akimov had moved to Slovakia, Slovenia or Bulgaria a couple of years ago, perhaps the multiple Olympic champion would have stood in front of us, shooting without misses and soaring over the ski track. And the Russian Nastya Kuzmina at this moment would sadly end her career somewhere at the IBU Cup, quietly regretting that she did not leave her homeland in her youth.

At the October training camp in Ramsau, biathlete Tatyana Akimova gave an interview to rsport.ria.ru special correspondent Elena Vaitsekhovskaya and promised that after the birth of her child she would definitely return.

Tanya, clarify the situation. I know from the senior coach of the national team, Vitaly Noritsyn, that you intend to take a time-out for family reasons. You continue to train, but you do not do it as part of a team. Why?
- It’s not the first season that I’ve been thinking that as soon as the Olympic year is over, it would be nice to go on maternity leave and have a baby. I’m already 27, who knows when I’ll have the opportunity to take a long break? Not to say that this thought haunted me; rather, I understood that after the Games I would have to very clearly plan my life in order to have time to recover from stress, relax emotionally, and feel physically ready for pregnancy and the associated changes in life.

- The Olympic season didn’t end at all the way you wanted?
- This is true. Immediately after the Olympics, I planned to compete at the World Cup stages in Kontiolahti, Holmenkollen and Tyumen, but I got sick. I developed a high fever that lasted for almost two weeks. I couldn’t train in that state, and it was terrible, because I never even thought about skipping the remaining stages. Just like the Russian championship in Khanty. But that’s exactly how it turned out. Even the form that was there disappeared quickly. It was simply pointless to go to competitions in such a state.

- What prevented you from preparing for the Games differently?
- I can only talk about myself, not about the team. Personally, I was greatly influenced by the change in the coaching staff that occurred before the Olympic season, and quite serious changes in the training process and methodology that followed in connection with this. It’s too hard to rebuild, adapt and gain something in one season. It can’t be said that I didn’t do enough in training, or didn’t give my all in competitions, but... it turned out the way it did.

- Do you have the feeling that Russian athletes are seriously underperforming in terms of training?
- I can, again, rely on my experience. The point here, it seems to me, is not the amount of work or its intensity. Over the four years that I spent in the national team, our coaches changed every season, and with them the methods, loads, and volumes changed. Working with Noritsyn, as I already said, was absolutely comfortable for me, primarily because he explained everything and, as it were, prepared us in advance for how everything would develop at one or another stage of the work, and what the result should be. I always felt just as comfortable working with a personal trainer, the father of my husband, Anatoly Valentinovich Akimov. He trained Slava and me in the best conditions that could be provided, and put all his knowledge, care, and love into the work. I simply never had such an understanding with any of the other team specialists, so it was not always possible to understand whether I was working correctly or what would come of this work. These doubts were very disturbing.

- Why do you continue to train now?
- I’m not going to give up biathlon after the baby is born. My husband and I discussed this and decided that since we are old enough to come back and continue running, why not do it? I talked to those athletes who already have children, and everyone said that combining motherhood with training is very difficult. Slava and I are lucky to have parents nearby who are ready to help when the baby arrives. Moreover, my husband is also determined to train seriously and try to get into the national team.

- What prevented you from still remaining in the national team? We're not talking about going on maternity leave right now, are we?
- Not yet, but I reasoned like this: the national team means a lot of workload and certain obligations. It would be simply rude on my part to demand full support and at the same time know that I am going to train in a lighter mode, since I am preparing for pregnancy. We came to Austria more out of habit - we have been holding training camps here in October for so many years that no other options even came to mind. In Ramsau there is a place to run, shoot, and ski. Although this fall there is a problem with snow on the glacier - there is very little of it. But in any case, this is better than training at home in Cheboksary - the biathlon center in our city has not yet been completed.

- Are you at all concerned now that during the break associated with expecting a child, you can gain weight and lose your conditioning?
- I'm not the first, I'm not the last. If things get really difficult, I’ll turn to Katya Yurlova. She will always help with advice, especially since she herself recently became a mother and returned. Moreover, Katya trained almost until the last day of pregnancy, which is probably why she was able to get back into shape so quickly. So there is someone to follow by example.

- How big are your spouse’s sporting ambitions? I know that at one time he was considered no less talented than three-time world champion Maxim Chudov.
- This is indeed true. Slava, for example, was the only one who was included in the adult national team as a junior. It’s just that later he developed certain health problems, which did not allow him to train at full strength for quite a long time. Now, fortunately, everything has stabilized in this regard. My husband is very serious about his work, his goal is to get into the national team and finally realize his sporting ambitions.

Photo from Tatyana Akimova’s personal page on Instagram

Professional athletes should not suddenly stop playing sports, this will harm the body, so it is understandable why Akimova trains, even though she plans to have a child, this work is still easy, again you need to unload your body emotionally and physically.
Good luck to Tatyana and may all your plans come true. There is time to return to big sport.

Only good things to the Akimov family! Slava Akimov to catch up, I’m keeping an eye on him. I drove through the city of Cheboksary twice, never looked at the unfinished biathlon stadium, and hurried back to Izhevsk. Both Tanya’s and Slava’s are strong, I believe that they will succeed!

Iola, plus))
Let's look at the route))
And we transfer personal things to the winter (

Pavel, if Tatyana decided to become a mother, then we all wish her all human blessings))
There is no need to make some kind of cult out of this... it was and will be...
I wish her to become a good mother))
He’ll be back.. We’ll root and believe.. that’s business :))

Pavel, it’s not me who has problems with conscience, it’s you who have problems understanding what others, including Tatyana, are talking about.

Marina, the personal intimate life of athletes does not interest me.
The birth of children for a normal person is the grace and gift of God, and most often women hide their pregnancy for selfish purposes. If you think it’s normal that an athlete, knowing full well about the end of his career and artificially holding a place in the national team for himself, continues to lie to the fans, deceives the TS - this is a worthy act, then you have problems with your conscience. My opinion is self-interest and corruption. And Tatiana is a great guy, an open and honest person, but for many here the meaning of these words is not accessible.

biathlon is becoming a family business)) money decides everything, and positions are so, which means contractual relations have not been settled, but this is precisely what they keep quiet about most of all, casting a shadow over the fence; she clearly does not plan to tie the knot: “I’m already 27, who knows? When will you have another opportunity to take a long break? "but is planning something))

Marina, I agree.)
What's the point of bringing the situation to the point of absurdity...?
I'm not interested in discussing this topic. Neither in the first nor in the second case.
Ladies know better what kind of stuff to do about themselves in the media...)

Rosa RD, well, she would have said: “I feel more comfortable this way, I want to train individually with the coach I trust more” - and this would have been understandable, logical and explainable, since there was a lot that didn’t suit her about the national team.
Why hide behind “high ideals”, play at nobility and “fence the garden” about “I don’t want to take someone’s place”?

Irsen, they did the right thing in that “they were encrypted” - this is not a topic for general discussion.
It’s bad that they are now starting to publicly announce their planned pregnancy.
Well, at least because in such matters “man proposes, but God disposes.”
They took some guys to train in the region, citing the fact that it would be better for them - and in the case of Tatyana, the same explanation had to be given to the general public. That's all. And she herself would have decided how to explain her absence from the CPU.

Rosa RD, naturally, she is comfortable with her husband. I care about her future sports career, not her personal life.

Boris, what difference does it make to you? She is not with the national team, but with her husband in the end. So she's so comfortable

How are you planning the coming months of your life?
- I will go to training camps with my husband, train with him, help him. We are now working under the leadership of Anatoly Valentinovich (Akimov), I continue to discuss and correct some things with Noritsyn, we are constantly in touch.

This is some kind of stupidity, but why not run to the Kyrgyz Republic yourself with your husband?

Tatiana! Everything is honest and to the point! We respect you! GOOD LUCK in everything you do! And happy birthday!

Vaitsekhovskaya knows her stuff...
And so I read and think what you are talking about here.

Well, Tanya said, and said. And I think that I did the right thing to get rid of her.

Marina, according to Olga Zaitseva, they “were encrypted” - they denied the obvious...
Although there was plenty of information on the internet :)

Rocheva: Is Zaitseva pregnant? Is this an April Fool's joke? (04/03/15)
championat.com

“Olga Zaitseva is expecting the birth of a child” (04/18/15)
The acting head coach of the Russian biathlon team this season, Olga Zaitseva, will become a mother in the near future. The two-time Olympic champion, who retired, is four months pregnant.
skisport.ru

Pavel, Olga did the right thing in not exposing the purely personal circumstances of her life and her intimate plans to public discussion. It is normal to discuss this among family and very close friends.

And she wasn't either. O. head coach in fact.

Have many of our junior gold medalists confirmed their status in adult competitions? And try to get into the national team...
Some surfed the open spaces in the Kyrgyz Republic, some finished performing without realizing their potential.
For the last season, TS received a bad rating - so what is Yakushova doing wrong? (

According to Akimova, they obviously made a premature mistake, “sending” her on maternity leave...
He trains according to the plans of a personal trainer and communicates with Noritsyn.
How will it turn out for our ladies, will it turn out that we will see Tanya in Izhevka?)

Somehow I haven’t met women who would tell everyone about pregnancy in the early stages.
Well, except for the closest ones.
And Zaitseva did everything right. Why does she need this to be discussed on the Internet?
But Akimova let it slip somewhere and what good did she get for herself? National discussion about the size of your belly.

Pavel, should you have been ashamed?

Pavel, well, Olya Zaitseva doesn’t need to be dragged into this, you don’t know, why talk about it? A?

Well done Tanyusha, honestly and with dignity. All the best to you and your family.
I immediately remembered how Olya Zaitseva hid her pregnancy and fooled everyone. From the beginning she promised to return, and then in the middle of the season she announced her retirement from the athlete’s career and did not hesitate to take the position and. O. chief trainer

I wish the Akimov family to grow and be healthy!

Irina K., wow, what a fashionable ava you have! It's a pity, there's nowhere to rate it

So it became clear about Akimova, otherwise some absurdities were piled up.
Galich is really just one of many. It’s very convenient for her to blame everything on others. It’s so arranged that in adult life the mother and nanny are not always around. You have to achieve something yourself. Many did not become academicians, even though they completed all the assignments at the university. The teachers “simply ruined” them all too?

It’s still a strange story with Akimova... But I still hope that she will return to Beijing. She clearly wouldn't hurt on the team.

As for Yakushova, of course, she is a very narrow-minded girl. And at the same time he has a bad character. But her job was to run and shoot, her trainers had to prepare her. But they showed themselves no better in this whole story. As for the problems raised by Olga related to the preparation and formation of the national team, she did not discover America here. Ordinary fans have been writing about this for quite some time and a lot. Let's see what changes with the new management...

Irina K., It’s good that she reads and wants to learn. oh-oh-very funny. You can read all sorts of women’s memoirs or magazines (and in oh-so-large quantities).
And I also want a lot of things. Just wanting does not mean doing it!
And with such a post, in which, like in kindergarten or schoolchildren (but not moms), all sorts of emoticons are shown, something about *** is hard to believe. Moreover, at the very beginning it is said that she did not like studying at all: “I studied poorly at school, and I didn’t want to show my nose there... I don’t think she has changed much.

Karintsev Alexey Innokentievich, Olga spoke warmly about Kaisheva immediately after the incident with the diopter.
And you should have asked the coaches about this incident and why the skis of the undesirable ones did not work.

Is there anyone to praise among the coaches? Suggest candidates - it will be interesting. Kryuchkov, at least, managed to speak out quite self-critically. The right solutions are not easy to find.

Karintsev Alexey Innokentievich, question for coaches: “how much skiing did you drink from the athletes?” :))

Irina K., “I’m kind of kind today. What is it for?)"
For the rain, probably.)

there is no coach-athlete feedback, hence the misunderstanding and complaints, which is why it’s mostly the children of coaches who remain, hence Shipulin’s departure to Kryuchkov and Babikov - “the one who runs best is the one who...”, Yurlova with her dad, and why isn’t she? It seems that there really are problems in the professional training of the coaching staff and in the professional sports system, it’s time to change it, switch to a club system, where there is competition, etc.

I read a little about Olga Yakushova’s page. It’s good that he reads and wants to learn. Her husband and child are with her. Well done! After leaving Big Sports, she spoke out harshly, but you yourself read that in all the previous years I read only one book. I don't want to scold her for this. Let everything work out for her.))... I’m somehow kind today. What is it for?)

Karintsev Alexey Innokentievich, I understand :)
They found it difficult to answer the questions... A counter question arose...)

Irsen wanted to get comments from the coaches after Olga spoke harshly, blaming TS for her unpreparedness.

Irsen, after all, 2011 is still a junior year? Definitely a junior world championship

so no one denies that she was strong in juniors

Olga Galich (Yakushova): “The race was surprisingly easy”
“... I think that the coaches led us to the starts very competently,” biathlonrus.com
The coach during these years was Alexander Selifonov.

and still I’ll give my two cents on Olga Galich/Yakushova
The girl is clearly offended, and very much, but professional sport means that you have to give up a lot, you yourself make the choice to give birth to your children, or like many foreign athletes, first prof. sports, and only then children
main complaints:
that the coach is authoritarian, so anarchy does not bring anything good?!
in the national stud farm, one plan for all ages and types of muscle mass may be the case, but why should I believe only Yakushova who says that Noritsyn is a k. o.... l, etc., and Akimova, Podchufarova, Kaisheva , Reztsova and others say that, on the contrary, he is different in that you can find contact with him and explains almost individually to everyone?!
and they didn’t appreciate such a talent that mowed down everyone in the juniors
By analogy, I have a picture when a young specialist comes to a company after college with a portfolio from various competitions and says that you are not my order, let’s start grooming and cherishing me

Dimych, her post on VK is fresh.
If I already regretted it, I would simply delete it.
And no one particularly “glorifies” her here. In VK it’s a different matter.
There, other “commentators” do not choose their expressions at all in their negative attitude towards her. ((
And her post characterizes both sides this way.

Karintsev Alexey Innokentievich, what questions did you ask some of these coaches?)

Oh these women... :))

Karintsev Alexey Innokentievich, I will take note. Thank you!)

Natalya Anatolyevna, “is there anywhere an interview with Olga where she at least said good things about anyone?”

Some coaches of the national team asked me the same question, answering my questions with this question; I won’t mention their names.

Natalya Anatolyevna, about someone - who is this about?

She ended her career through no fault of her own. It’s emasculated, but there are no cuts. Just like Podchufarova.
Hopes were pinned on Olga Yakushova, she was praised as a junior and considered a promising biathlete.
She identified the problems that prevented her from showing a decent result. This was discussed earlier, site

Dimych, this is not her only post, if you go to her page there are several continuations about the difficult fate of the ruined Russian biathlon star

Irsen, is there anywhere an interview with Olga where she at least said something good about anyone? I honestly searched and didn’t find any

Olga Yakushova: “Nobody moves their legs in the Russian women’s reserve team,” website (interview dated January 13, 2018)

Dimych, Olga is probably talking about “painful things” for a reason...

Marina, I would also “correct” the very first post. Olga may already have had time to regret it a hundred times, but we continue to “glorify” her. After all, by and large, all this talk about “painful things” characterizes her more than the people around her

Lilia, I don’t see anything “considered” here about making noise about your “preparation” to the whole country. In my opinion, this is just stupid

Dimych, in fact, those who leave are those who, as they say, just got knocked up. Tatyana made a well-informed decision, and most likely either the doctors said or she had a negative experience that she wouldn’t be able to get pregnant with intense exercise. Everyone needs to look for some kind of black cat.

Took last place in the mass start at the Olympics in Korea. Akimova emphasized that she had no contact with the coaching staff and she simply could not understand some of the classes.

“I have already spoken out about Akimova,” Reztsova began. - She said that with such a move she would not turn out to be a great biathlete. The girl blames everyone now, but what did she herself do for this? Even with clean shooting, she has no results. She knows her minus - the move. But she didn't even work on it.

- Why?
- I was counting on the fact that I would cover all the targets and increase my level. She doesn't care how she runs! She doesn't care.

- Come on?
- Yes. She had arguments with many coaches who wanted to help her. They told her: “Tatiana, you are running slowly, you need to tighten up this element.” And she waved it off: “What does this have to do with the move, I can work purely on the line”... The result is obvious. Akimova is offended by everyone. But first of all, you need to understand yourself. Yes, today she was flunked. But she must be ready for anything!

- It turned out that you’re not ready?
- Yes. Exactly! This race showed that Akimova is not ready to fight! Just not ready! She didn't show anything. It seems like she is running and running. And then - how it goes. And now she still blames everyone - who doesn’t understand her, who doesn’t hear her. She's the one who doesn't hear anyone. The coaches wanted to help her and offered various options. She rejected everything, hoping only for her shooting.

- However, Akimova claims that she felt comfortable working with Noritsin, whose contract was not renewed...
- And you ask Noritsyn? And he will answer you the same as I did. He walked towards her, listened, heard. But when I tried to tell her, she also did everything her own way. I don’t know... A year ago, when she once won the sprint and became third in the pursuit, for some reason they turned her into a star, a leader. But after that Akimova did not confirm that she was the leader. She didn’t fight, she didn’t work until she was exhausted!

- Did you look for the reasons for failures around you?
- Yes. She only blamed the weather, skiing, coaches, and so on. Tanya won't be a great biathlete because she doesn't know how to work! Looking for all sorts of excuses. Today I thought that she would be somewhere around 10th. But do you see what the result is? It turned out that I was simply not ready for the mass start.

- Can I finish biathlon with such an attitude?
- I don't know. It's her right. She can continue her career and prove that she was written off early, answer all the critics, including me. Why should she finish?

- What can you say about Kuzmina’s victory?
- I am very grateful to Nastya. She stood up for herself, for her brother, for the girls who were not allowed. She communicates with many people and is friends. In particular, with my daughter Daria Virolainen. I am very grateful to her. Kuzmina once again proved that there is no need to humiliate and insult athletes who are not guilty of anything. We all bow deeply to her.

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Anfisa! You don’t have to kick others to raise your own! Don’t you know how much athletes, any of them, need support! and not just yours! If you can’t afford such luxury, then it’s better to keep quiet, at least it won’t ricochet.

Well, what can we take from the talker?

mother, not understanding the harm to her children, the diagnosis is instinctive. There is no one else to interview. After all, by supporting our athlete in every detail now, we become stronger. yes Denis is a noble troll

Dmitry,
Well, yes, and the current coaches planned everything in advance so that the current athletes would not have any results this year, so to speak, to help those who ordered their own “murder” and their accomplices - representatives of the second oldest. :))

Don't think it's a complicated design. But I think everything turned out much simpler, without a social order. The athletes are not satisfied with the result, and not just one or two. You can, of course, blame the entire biathlon team for “not knowing how to work and fight,” but it would be more logical to ask those who train them.

Conspiracy theories are, of course, cool, but somehow too mysterious. :))

DimaN1951: “Actually, it would be better for Reztsova to remain silent after her own simple-minded statement several years ago about her taking “pills” at one time.”

And not just keep silent, but be expelled from the RRF.

Anton Pavlovich Chaika, this is not the first time. So the command “FAS” went to the current coaches. And journalists are used as executors in this matter. And to approach any athlete and get the necessary answers from him - I don’t see anything difficult here
Even Reztsov can be set up like this. This has already happened to her. I remember the case when details of the personal life of her and her daughters were published. And she didn’t sue anyone there.
She grinds everything, and then the journalists choose the most rotten and closest to the order. Reztsova is a very convenient material for journalists in this regard
That’s why journalists are called representatives of the “most ancient profession.”

zakol,
but Tatyana was not the only one who expressed dissatisfaction with her preparation during the season. Olga Yakushova said about the same thing a few months ago, that she completed the entire volume, but there was no result, so she left biathlon altogether. Babikov and Tsvetkov spoke about the same thing. And you can accuse these athletes of bias, incorrectness, etc. as much as you like, but the trend, however, is not in favor of our coaches. As they say, this is not the first case in our practice. And something needs to be done about this. After all, if an athlete dares to speak unflatteringly about the coaches, then this is already the end, which means the weight has reached the floor. And if several athletes talk about this at once, then at least their opinion should be listened to carefully.

difficult season, not difficult, Reztsova was never a biathlete by and large, a skier, yes, but she had a lot of character, and she always fought to the end, you can’t take that away, it’s only the coach or goalkeeper’s fault in football, individual events - only athlete! and the fact that “Kuzmina and Domracheva opened up thanks to the lack of competition and careful attitude towards them in their new teams.” - this statement causes, to put it mildly, great surprise!? they already had a good foundation laid before they got into other teams, and there they were helped to develop them, how? An interesting question, but certainly not due to hothouse conditions and the gagging of representatives of local kings, all this will not add popular support to the akim, everyone is equal on the ski track

In fact, it would be better for Reztsova to remain silent after her own simple-minded statement several years ago about her taking “pills” at one time.

zakol, where did you see “the weak-willed holding of races”? Getting into the MC based on the results of previous races at the Olympic Games already indicates the opposite. What’s the point of squeezing out the last of your strength after 5 misses at one milestone, when ahead of our biathletes lies the most important race for them at these Olympic Games - SE (it was announced even before the start of the games)? To take 28th or 29th place instead of 30th, and then lose your stage in SE?
And many biathletes can make mistakes; just remember Ustyugov’s 8 mistakes in the standing position of the last stage of the relay, which dropped our team from first to fourteenth place.

Mikhail Vansyatsky, dirt is your expression about the fans. Here they are talking about the weak-willed conduct of races and an obvious attempt to blame everything on others. How else does all this look directly at the Olympic Games? Not all races are finished yet. Why do all this if everyone else has to perform? They start: they don’t write to me, they write to me, but Barnashov himself called me...

I don’t see anything in Akimova’s words that would fall under the definition of “throwing mud.” If our press interprets and distorts her words in any way, puts quotes taken out of context into headlines, calls an honest answer to a question a “statement,” etc., then these are problems of the press and those who believe it.
I repeat once again - not a single Russian biathlete shows anything this season. Tatyana simply voiced the general problem of the team and explained its reason not in detached general phrases, but specifically based on her personal experience.

Actually, it was Tatyana who began to accurately throw dirt at the coaches. I started after the individual competition and continued after the mass start.

1) Tatyana Akimova never considered herself the leader of the team and always talked about it.
2) Tatyana wanted to continue working with Noritsyn in the off-season. They already had a preparation plan ready, taking into account the mistakes made during last season, which needed to be corrected. Noritsyn's removal and Konovalov's arrival were like a bolt from the blue. At the same time, no one took the athlete’s opinion into account.
3) Akimova’s main complaint against Konovalov and Co. is the lack of any explanation for the usefulness of certain exercises. They simply told her, do it and that’s it. And why and for what purpose - you don’t need to know. No one was interested in her well-being, and she herself did not understand what stage of readiness she was at.
4) As soon as the starts began, it turned out that Tatyana’s speed on the ski track not only did not increase, but also worsened. She did not receive a clear explanation from the coaches, and as a result, she lost confidence in the coaching staff and their instructions.
5) The same situation applies to absolutely all members of the Russian women’s national team. More or less, the only exception is Yurlova, who trained individually. But her results are worse than those that Tatyana showed last year. I'm not even talking about the deafening failure at the European Championships of Svetlana Mironova, the country's main young biathlon hope. So Akimova just voiced the team’s general problem, and Reztsova’s attack specifically on her is, to say the least, a dishonest act.

6) Reztsova, as usual, contradicts herself. First, she showers all the trunks on Akimova, and at the end she declares: “Kuzmina has once again proven that it is NOT NECESSARY TO HUMILIATE AND INSULT athletes who are not guilty of anything.” So why is Reztsova herself doing this?
7) I know what Konovalov wrote to Tatyana on the eve of the mass start. To put it mildly, this is not how they support their athletes.
8) Kuzmina and Domracheva blossomed thanks to the lack of competition and careful attitude towards them in their new teams. We only treat with care those who are convenient, pleasing, and “thieves.”
9) Tatyana is having a difficult season and there is no need to throw mud at her.

Mad bear, where did you see hatred? I write factually, and here you are spreading demagoguery. Anfisa correctly said that Akimova does not fight and does not show results, but is only looking for excuses for herself.

“Protect fans from hatred”

LOL WHAT? I am not responsible for other people. All claims to them.

Denis, who do you think stands out among those in the WC this season, besides Yurlova? Of the men, only Shipulin and Loginov, and then only with great reserve. I have never seen Anton so helpless on the track before as he was this season. We still don't know Loginov's potential at KM. And all three, mind you, prepared according to their own plans, and Yurlova and Shipulin were also outside the team.

Fedya,... “With such and such diligent work by the coaches, maybe we shouldn’t evaluate the potential of the athletes?!” - I completely share your opinion.

Denis, claims regarding Mironova should not be made against Akimova. Why hasn’t Konovalov, as a shooting coach (his specialization), taught the girl how to shoot yet? My opinion is that Svetlana should be on the team. And I also regret that she is not on the team. Both Tatyana and Svetlana, according to their abilities and capabilities, should be on the team. But TS did not solve their problems, but only aggravated them and therefore no longer has the right to exist. For what (what merits) Konovalov was returned to the team, I still don’t understand. And then Tikhonov cried out for him, oh-oh-oh, and now he’s dissatisfied. I wonder what he was pleased with during his first appointment, when Konovalov simply drove Olga Podchufarova and did not train anyone in anything? At the moment, I’m just glad that Sveta is not on the team on a permanent basis. It will be saved this way. But I expect a breakthrough from her. The team needs both athletes to skillfully develop their abilities.

Denis, remove Sveta from your avatar and express your opinion on health. Otherwise, you are only provoking attacks from fans of the same Ulyana and Tanya in Sveta. Isn't this the work of a provocateur?

If you really were a fan of Sveta, you would try to protect her from the reciprocal hatred of the fans of those athletes for whom you yourself are filled with hatred, wouldn’t you?

DimaN1951, I don’t want to denigrate anyone, but I’m writing my opinion. My opinion about Akimova was exactly the same as about Kaisheva. Both of them have nothing to do at the World Cup. They don’t try and don’t fight.

Mad bear, These are not attacks on biathletes. This is a truth that people here don’t want to notice.

Valentinovna, So you think that Akimova’s only success last season is that she now has to be dragged around all stages of the World Cup like a tourist without results? If she has no desire to fight for medals and she’s frankly not up to the task this season, then why torture her? Let him rest at the Russian Cup and if he shows good results he will come back. Why was Mironova put into reserve with excellent speed, while Akimova can constantly skate at the bottom of the protocol? Where's the justice?

Fedya, it looks like a scorched field. Just as they burned everything out after Pichler, that’s where we are now.

DimaN1951, I support! As a personal fan of Sveta Mironova, it was always disgusting for me to read Denis’ attacks on other biathletes. Let him remove Sveta from her avatar and then he’ll start throwing dirt instead of disgracing her. And so, a typical provocateur, trying to arouse hatred of fans towards Sveta.

Dmitry, but this, perhaps, really looks a lot like a scorched field.

With such diligent work by coaches, maybe we shouldn’t evaluate the potential of athletes?!

Denis, don’t you think that you and Anfisa are twin sisters? She is trying to denigrate her daughters’ competitors, you are trying to denigrate Sveta Mironova’s competitors. All that remains is to ask Dasha, Christina and Sveta whether they need such “intercessors”. I think no.

And Virolainen, apparently, knows how to work... Sorry. Nothing personal.

Denis, if Akimova is to be sent to the Russian Cup, then where should Mironov be sent?
A failure is a failure and you need to treat it as a failure, and not build conclusions that are beneficial to you.
Tatyana Akimova is at least our 2nd-3rd best biathlete, but everyone else still needs to prove this.

Yuri: “... how to feel about Akimova’s shooting?”
And how should we feel about OC Ustyugov, who somehow, being the team leader, made 8 mistakes in the standing position, at the last stage of the relay, dropping the team from first place to fourteenth:- (

That’s why I respect Anfisa so much for the truth! I said everything as it is and I’m completely right! Akimova does not work and does not fight! Couldn't have said it better! It's time to send Tanya to the Russian Cup. Vyalbe removed Nepryaeva and Nechaevskaya from the team last year, but they returned proving that they can perform successfully!

Sometimes it's better to remain silent.
And these are our rules

Vladimir,
If you don’t see that A. Reztsova goes beyond all boundaries in relation to all the athletes of our team without exception, excluding only her daughters, then it’s difficult for me to talk to you. If you can name at least one athlete from our national team about whom A.A. would say at least something positive, I will be very grateful to you. I don't know such facts.

As for me, I don’t have the habit of writing nasty things about anyone. I operate exclusively with facts. I wish the same for you. :)) We are not discussing here the question of how much Reztsova gave to biathlon. We are talking about how much it takes away from biathlon when it undermines the self-confidence of active biathletes, tells gossip about them, discusses and condemns them at the most inopportune moment, during important competitions. They don’t treat enemies the way she treated Tatyana Akimova. I didn’t have the courage to ask her coaches for their work, so I turned the arrows to the athlete. A good decision, and most importantly, a “bold” one. :))

Valentinovna, you still haven’t answered how to feel about Akimova’s shooting? And this is the athlete who blames coaches for improper functional training. You can fail shooting in one or two races, but not in four. The Ukrainians also didn’t show anything at the Olympic Games, but at least they ran at the World Championships this season. As for my personal concern for our athletes, I personally worry about Kuklina and Dmitrieva. Yes, I wrote vaguely above, giving the example of Podchufarova. I wanted to say, do you want to bother with Akimova in the same way as with Podchufarova’s incomprehensible problems?

Marina Alekseevna,))) urgently change your avatar to the one with the gun, so that everyone immediately understands who surrendered))

What is “age”? There are no middle-aged people! There are people who give up!

Marina Alekseevna, God will forgive you!
And I’m just Handsome, HEALTHY, but not a military man.
Where did you get the idea that I was hitting on you?
I know for sure that I DON’T LIKE HEALTHY WOMEN (as you wrote there:fffffffffffffffffffffffffff, not even military men!

(Now you will receive offers from military camps! So don’t be discouraged!)

Yuri, don't hesitate to ask. The only thing I disagree with is what I wrote above in detail. And how is Akimova so different from Mironova in terms of experience at KM? Appeared on KM one year earlier? And the fact that Akimova has the same problems as Podchufarova is quite possible. The girls were rolled out thanks to their good results. Maybe Svetlana was also lucky to avoid such a disaster in this way. But Sveta (I understand, you are her personal fan) needs to find a good shooting coach and then her place on the team at the KM will be unshakable.

We thought that our athletes at these Olympic Games would be humiliated by Comrade Bach and his company. But it turned out that journalists and an SBI official are leading in this case.

Marina Alekseevna, Marish, come and visit then.. I’ll provide you with something))

Nick Kuziansky, Well, you know, you can’t praise yourself...
although... I’m not interested in you as a man... I’m sorry... But I LOVE military men, Handsome, HUGE...

Lily, come to me?
I guess I didn't understand something?

Marina Alekseevna, no Marishechkin, I had a question for you))

Marina Alekseevna, Oh! I am handsome! It's true!

Valentinovna, I’m embarrassed to ask you, what did Reztsova say that was so terrible and wrong?” I don’t take Tatyana’s progress at the Olympic Games into account, only the rate of fire in time: sprint -44, GP-48 out of 60 participants, IG-62 and MS-29. What can you count on with such shooting and this is zero in one sprint. I repeat that what Reztsova said was wrong. This could be forgiven today for Mironova, but not for Akimova. Do you want Akimova to be like Podchufarova’s problems? And the fact that she defends Virolainen, of course, goes too far - so here we have Elen defending Volkov, Khinskyi Kaisheva no less.

Nick Kuzyansky, don’t be ridiculous... look at yourself handsome in the mirror...

“Scandals, intrigues, investigations” - this is our biathlon today! It's terribly disappointing and annoying

Lily, all questions to mom)
She only ruins everything, including the girls’ reputation.

International master of sports, biathlete Tatyana Akimova won bronze in the relay race at the world championship in 2017. In addition, the 28-year-old biathlete also has a victory at the World Cup stages: in 2016 she won the sprint competition in the Czech Republic in Nove Mesto na Morave. However, for some reason, the wonderful athlete Tatyana Akimova is missing from the list of the main roster of the Russian women's biathlon team for the 2018/19 season. Sports fans are worried about the question: “Where did Tatyana Akimova go?”

Personal life of Tatyana Akimova

Tatyana Sergeevna Akimova (born October 26, 1990, Cheboksary) not long ago changed her maiden name Semyonova to Akimova. A beauty from Chuvashia married an athlete, a biathlete, the son of her biathlon coach. Her husband is Vyacheslav Akimov. They have been involved in biathlon together since childhood. In 2011, Vyacheslav won the title of European Junior Champion. The wonderful sports couple registered their relationship in June 2015.

We can safely say that the personal life of biathlete Tatyana Akimova was quite successful. Indeed, in a sports family, where husband and wife are engaged in the same business, respect and complete mutual understanding reign. It should be noted that Tatyana and Vyacheslav love fishing. In addition, Tanya often spends time studying English.

Tatyana is a student at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Law at Cheboksary Polytechnic University. Therefore, she has practically no free time. However, the biathlete always finds him to communicate with her fans. She runs her own page on Instagram, where she regularly posts both family photos and photos from her sporting events.

Biathlete of the Russian national team Tatyana Akimova missed the 2017/2018 season because she was seriously ill. Tatyana did not want to advertise her illness, but sports fans still have questions about where Tatyana Akimova is now and why she is not on the list of the main roster of the Russian women's national biathlon team 2018/2019.

A multiple winner of the World Cup, Tatyana won bronze at the World Biathlon Championships in Hochfilzen. She is fifth in the ranking of Russian biathletes. Tatyana, by her own admission, is not going to quit biathlon. “We discussed this issue with my husband and decided that if my age allows me to continue doing biathlon, then why not?!”

Sports biography of biathlete Tatyana Akimova

The start of Tatyana Akimova’s sports biography was given at the Cheboksary Youth Sports School. The Chuvash biathlete trained for more than ten years under the guidance of Anatoly Akimov, who has now become her father-in-law. He taught her to win. First, Tatyana Akimova joined the Russian youth team, and then joined the national team (reserve). In 2011, she performed remarkably at the World Junior Championships, as well as at the European Championships.

Tatyana achieved her first significant victory, which brought her success and silver at the Russian Summer Biathlon Championship, in 2011. This wonderful victory gave her the opportunity to participate in the world Championship. Having received the title of international master of sports of the Russian Federation (2015), Akimova became a candidate for the main team of the women's Olympic team.

Where is Tatyana Akimova now?

Tatyana is on the honorary list of athletes who are candidates for the Russian Olympic team 2018/2019. Such athletes are given the opportunity to train at the famous Sports Training Center named after. Ignatiev, in full accordance with their individual plans. However, biathlete Tatyana Akimova had to miss the 2017/2018 sports season due to illness.

An international class athlete who is the Laureate of the international IBU Awards in the “Rookie of the Year” category (2015/2016); As well as the silver medalist of the III World Military Winter Games in Sochi, and the champion of the games in the team competition, Tatyana Sergeevna Akimova, fans are looking forward to international biathlon performances.

She started cross-country skiing in first grade and started biathlon at the age of 12. For some time she combined two sports and became a master of sports in cross-country skiing. The first coach, Anatoly Valentinovich Akimov, did a lot for the athlete’s training, and also supported her financially - he helped purchase equipment. Tatyana speaks warmly about her childhood training and calls those training sessions friendly and partly family-like.

As a junior, she was only able to qualify once for the European Championships, held in Ridnaun, Italy, and took 17th and 10th places there in the sprint and pursuit, respectively. These results allowed her to get into the Russian youth team and conduct her first training sessions as part of the national team. At the junior level, Tatyana demonstrated high speed, but did not always cope with shooting at her main competitions.

The first significant success happened in 2013 at the World Winter Universiade in Trentino - in Italy, Tatyana managed to win bronze medals in the sprint and pursuit, as well as gold in the mixed relay. A year later, on the Izhevsk Rifle, Tatyana fulfilled the selection criteria and won the right to compete at the World Cup and European Championships in Estonia. However, due to the lack of qualifying points, she was forced to start first at the IBU Cup stages.

She held her first race within the World Cup at the beginning of the 2015/2016 season, for which she was preparing as part of the national team. In the first races, she did not show a stable result and was sent to the IBU Cup stages, from where, having won sprint gold, she returned to the World Cup competitions. Her best personal result that season was 12th place in the sprint at the stage in Khanty-Mansiysk. In addition, Tatyana became a participant in the 2016 World Championships in Holmenkollen, where she competed in the sprint, pursuit, individual race and relay.

At the end of the 2015/2016 season, she received the Rookie of the Year award from the International Biathlon Union.

The 2016/2017 season was Tatyana’s first full season at the World Cup stages. In the same season, she won her first victory there: on December 16, 2016, Tatyana won gold in the sprint at the World Cup stage in Nove Mesto. The next day, in the pursuit race, she retained her place on the podium, finishing third.

The Biathlon World Championships in Hochfilzen, Austria, brought Tatyana a bronze medal in the mixed relay. On February 9, 2017, the Russian team, for which Olga Podchufarova, Tatyana Akimova, Alexander Loginov and Anton Shipulin competed, became third, losing only to the teams of Germany and France. Tatyana finished the 2016/2017 season in 16th place in the overall Women's World Cup standings.