The first Russian champion of games in Tokyo Vitalina Batsarashkina spoke about her emotions after the victory.
There is no sensation of the Olympics. The first gold medalist of Russia – about the features of games in Tokyo and a future wedding
Vitalina Batsarashkina in shooting competitions from a pneumatic pistol from 10 meters became the first Russian champion of the Olympic Games in Tokyo. This medal was the first gold for domestic shooting from the 2004 Olympics in Athens. She spoke about how a 24-year-old athlete came to this result during communication with Russian journalists.
– Vitalina, on the eve of your colleague Anastasia Galashina said that before the last shot, her heart was beaten and did not succeed in fulfilling him well. You, on the contrary, pulled out your victory in the end. How was it?
– I would say that everything was fine with me and at the beginning, not only at the end. With a difference of 2 points, I understood that you can recoup. And everything worked out.
The Olympics is not Mortal Kombat
– How important is it for shooters to hone the technical side?
– For technical points, there is always time, place and need. If you do not train the technique at all, at the crucial moment emotions can block everything you did before. You just forget the right technique. When emotions exceed, one automatism remains. If this is not to work out in training, with emotions of thoughts it will not remain at all.
– Do you have funny cases in training?
– We had a foreign coach. It turned out one fun training. He asked to give the keys to our cases. The coaches took all the junk out of them and hid in the dash. And at the entrance, they also set the table that needs to be climbed. They gave us 5 minutes to find all things and make 10 shots. I managed in two and a half minutes.
– Do you agree that the Olympic Games are Mortal Kombat?
– I don’t know how in other sports, but we have an Olympics – this is not Mortal Kombat. Throughout the preparation for the games there was no sensation of the Olympics. Maybe not the same as before, or coronavirus measures were so influenced. Although nothing has changed except masks. It turned out to be an internal difference for me. I shot well in the dash and thought before the games: If I shoot here well, why can I not repeat there?
– Follow the performances of our other participants?
– Sometimes there is not enough time to cheer for others. I try not to worry much, and emotions from pain for ours influence, then I can’t fall asleep because of this.