Biathlon. Cup

Four-time World junior champion Anton Shipulin a second season in the main team of Russia and together with the team will go to the Olympics in Vancouver. In the interview site RRF Anton thanked coaches, Borndalenom admires and misses borscht, and also explains why not read before the race

English lesson

- You spend a second season in the main national team - this year feel more confident than in the past?

- Of course. Thanks to coaches who believed in me and took command, although I have in the past year, even as a result did not pass. In general, much easier to make a second season - already know how to prepare, and the team already pritersya somehow. And in season, tried to run with such beasts as Bjorndalen.

- Respect?

- Bjorndalen - star of the world biathlon, the king of the ski. He has won, has created a big name in the biathlon. I look at him from the bottom up.

- It would be interesting to chat with him?

- We are with foreign athletes, especially not communicate, so - hello, yet, like running, as the shot - ask each other trivial matters. Perhaps because of the language barrier does not work ...

- It is necessary to teach English.

- What are some simple things I can understand and explain, and so give details and correct sentences to communicate freely - yes, we must teach. And the desire to eat. If only the lazy to hide away.

- You are lazy?

- In some ways yes. For example, in learning English (laughs).

Winter time

- Almost half of the season behind us - as a comment on this?

- Before the new year was hard for me: not yet felt the speed. But with each start recruiting form, and here in Pokljuka, in Izhevsk ran faster. There was I pleased with their results in Oberhof, Ruhpolding and Antholz. Can probably be somewhere, and better speakers, but after a fight with his fists do not wave.

- It seems you do not "Decembrist" - when it is your time in the season?

- Earlier I noted that the peak shape occurs at the end of January - beginning of February, at the time junior European championships and the world. Sometimes, one must be selected in December, and I still could not run fast, but the selection still inquire, and then, before the competition, felt that the form is typed.

- In the juniors you have shown fantastic results, but the transition into the adult biathlon was given to you is not easy.

- Yes, last year was very hard. It was hard to watch, as of yesterday my adversaries, which I can easily play with - Dominique Landertinger Martin Fourcade, have expressed themselves well, and I stayed behind. I've talked with anyone on this subject, and the coach tried to reassure me, my family explained that not all of this transition is quick and painless. Urged not to worry: after a year or two adaptirueshsya, and everything will be much better. Plus more work with psychologists.

- Experts have been useful?

- At CAMPS we had three meetings and I really enjoyed working with them. They reassured me, to focus on the future, given some exercises. I would like to Moscow to find ways to meet them. Not necessarily call up every day - just once or twice a month to speak to them, they will install and go!

- What do you think, why Fourcade and Landertingeru transition into the adult sport was given more easily than you?

- Just do not understand because they have their own training, and we have - its own. I also not possible to see what they are doing is so special to quickly adjust to the adult level? But I will say one thing: they are much easier due to the fact that they are still juniors had the opportunity to run on the World Cup. When they finally moved to the adult, it already knew what to expect, with whom they must contend.

- In this season, you debuted in the relay - satisfied with yourself?

- I am very glad that I trusted to run stage, but at the same time I felt a huge responsibility, so the thought of the race I was oppressed. In the debut relay I was pleased with the "seasoning" and the course went well, but standing could have a better shot. Plus, installation is not yet closed. The fact that the organizers deducted eight seconds, I was not saved. If the same eight seconds I was on the road, he saw back to rivals and, perhaps more quickly ran to the last round. And so I went in 40 or 50 seconds behind leader, one not seen before, and upset that barely covered by eight bullets, five targets.

- Coaches have identified the second stage of the relay, but what more do you like?

- A young man I ran the first stage. I have always turned out great, always passed on the baton to the first, in rare cases - the second. I remember the World Cup once won the first stage, when not even in the best shape was - I liked to see the opponent, to fight, to understand who is where. In the junior competitions coaches have put me often on the second stage - thought that I have it good at it. So three years I have always ran the second stage.

- How do you spend your free time?

- The fees - it is usually a horizontal position with a laptop, well, talk to the kids. Heavy exhausting workout, you need to rest, recuperate. I also like to watch movies - it seems that everything interesting has already reviewed. For example, if the race night, the same need something before the start time to take? I woke up, had breakfast, and then could go for a walk, but can not - must accumulate energy in itself. In the Russian TV channels do not, nothing to watch. Surfing the Internet - hence the eye strain, and before the race to look after them better, do not overextend. Same thing with books. Once I had read before training, went to the stadium - tears.

Older sister

- Your older sister Anastasia Kuzmina too successful biathlon - you followed her into the biathlon go?

- Yes! Nastya - my beloved sister! I remember when I first saw her rifle in his hands, just wanted to biathlon. Since then, always took the example of the installation and maintenance: it is over, so before beginning to travel to competitions. I so wanted to repeat the results that I tried to do everything to rise to her level. Partly thanks to her I am now in the national teams. Nastya gives me a lot of advice: after all it is the older sister and a biathlon experienced than I am. We communicated mostly in the World Cup, sometimes intersecting at the camp. Sometimes, two or three days I spend with her, or I have it - until stop.

- How do you embraced her decision play for Slovakia?

- Nastya my sister and any decision I approve of it. The question was how to move with her husband in Slovakia and to raise a child in Europe. Nastya's husband - former Russian, lived in Slovakia for 10 years. Of course, there were many hard questions, but I have always supported her, was glad when she appeared in last year's results. Maybe if Nastia remained in Russia, everything would have been different. In Slovakia, there is no fierce competition - it is quietly preparing with her husband, he had her sparring partner. For her character's better. The main thing for Nastya - protect your nerves, so I'm very glad it worked out that way.

- Worried, perhaps, when Nastia recently broken arm?

- Yes, of course, but it's not a tragedy, a total of minus two weeks in the competitive period. Maybe it's even better: she now rest and then will perform better than could be? Prior to the Olympics is not much time and must be dispersed as forces. Nastya fellow, with its will, the character she quickly recovered.

- You have a countdown to the Olympics started?

- For me this year it would be a grand event just to be able to go to the Olympics, but now I realize that there can wrestle. Appetite comes with eating. Now I feel calmer than in December, when it was selected and gain points. Now my result speaks for itself.

- In the adult team - this year or last - you learned something new?

- Prepare with the national team - this is a new lesson every day. In our sport you pull to with whom practice with. And, if the person you stronger, then you can raise your level.

- You live in one room with Victor Vasiliev. Time to make friends?

- Well, first of all, we are familiar with Victor since childhood: I remember running in competitions in 16 more years, then began to compete with each other, went to all the junior European and World Championships. From that moment began to communicate very closely, we are the same age, we always have something to talk about, something to remember. Victor is the best neighbor. We do not get tired of each other, not a hindrance. Although there are people with whom you live a week, and they are starting to annoy.

- Victor - an ardent fan of "Spartacus". You are with him for the company is not sick?

- No, I do little interest in football. I can watch the World Cup, but no more.

Big Fish

- Which city do you like more than others?

- Ekaterinburg. Actually I was born in Tyumen, defended the summer at a local institute diploma. But five years ago, coach Vladimir Putrov invited me to speak for Ekaterinburg. The first time I was there only as: after fees still traveled to Tyumen, for parents. And then gradually I began to have friends in Ekaterinburg, like the city itself, and somehow I go heavier. And now I'm in Tyumen not want to - only if parents see. A Ekaterinburg straight home to my town.

- But you also stop off home - how they spend time?

- Formerly very often with his father went fishing. However, recently, no longer selected. The last two years my father and I went to the ATV on the lake. Sometimes on the way there are small streams that did not work to go round: we took the ax, cut down trees to jump over the river, then another way through the swamps, before getting to the water. In general, the forbidden fruit, so it sweeter.

- Catch the fish to the bait?

- Well, netting - is poaching, and uninteresting. Here is important because the process itself: I planted the worm, cast the bait, op-pa - a bite, and come on, pull! And if you come across a big fish, then all class!

- Your record?

- Kilogram, probably two, not more. There are some super giants I have not come across. A lot of poachers with nets - because of this fish is not so much to catch the three-meter catfish.

- Mom you do not go fishing?

- No, she then fish fries. Mom generally fabulous cook. Europe miss Russian cuisine - borscht on, FUTURE, Pelmeshki ...