The world champion in speed skating, Russian Ruslan Murashov, told Match TV that it was difficult for him to recover from the coronavirus during the season.
“It was hard to rehabilitate. I still have a runny nose sometimes, but I’m already in more or less good shape. The way it was initially hard to train is, of course, darkness, ”said Murashov.
The leader of the Russian national speed skating team will miss the Olympics. Others According to the 28-year-old athlete, this illness "nullified" him, he had to re-gain shape. “But I came close to my docky results and a week ago I had the best lap in my entire career,” the athlete added.
Murashov fell ill with coronavirus in October ahead of the start of the Olympic season. At the stages of the World Cup, he then never got into the prizes.
On Sunday in Kolomna Murashov won the 500 m distance at the All-Russian competition "In memory of B. I. Shavyrin" with a score of 34.98 seconds.
Murashov is the 2019 world champion at a distance of 500 m; he also does not count two silver and two bronzes of the world championships.
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