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Source: AP 2018
For last year's World Championship silver medalist Sergei Shubenkov, 2018 is more successful than ever. The athlete is still the only athlete who has managed to run 110 yards with barriers faster than 13 seconds. And three times. The Russian, in neutral status, leads the Diamond League and overtakes the calendar by getting a ticket for the final of this series of tests
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– What is the atmosphere for the Championship? Europe that starts August 8 in Berlin? For today with the result of 12.92 seconds, I am the leader of the world season. Even on 13 seconds this year, no one but me has exhausted it. Therefore, at the European Championships, I will have only one task: break everything and make a good result. To do this, my coach Sergey Klevtsov and I train a lot.
– On July 27, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) completed its regular council which decided to extend the suspension of the Russian Federation of Athletics. And were not you scared that neutral athletes are also banned from performing?
– The fears, of course, were present. But after all these misadventures of long duration, I already perceive all this calmly. They will make such a decision – agree, the other – also god with him. I have no way of influencing this situation.
And everyone is already used to this situation. It's not just about our athletes and our fans. Abroad, everyone is also used to the situation we are in.
They extended the suspension … Well, they extended it. Plus, we have been allowed to keep talking.
– But when at the end of 2015 VFL was suspended, did you expect it to be so long?
– I thought everything would end right after the 2016 Olympics. At this point, the IAAF will understand that the situation is disrupted and everything will stop. Past, survived and started living from scratch. I thought the IAAF would go to the International Olympic Committee. But that did not happen then.
– This season, as your coach said, has become experimental. There were a lot of departures in there. The result of this season is, so in the next, you will have a schedule of competition just as intense?
– I can not say. It is necessary to ask this to my coach. And he, for some, for me
– On the other hand, are you afraid of being emasculated after participating in many previous competitions early in the season?
– I have such things I get up in the morning and I can not immediately remember where I'm going to play today. But the result is not reflected in any way. That happened in Montreux, where even at the beginning came out with this attitude. I was so cool with my son spent the previous week, and now I'm at the stage …
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– Do you worry about your own absolute dominance during the season? The same Jamaican Omar MacLeod, who has always been a fraction of a second faster than last season, can not do anything against this year?
– We must understand that this season the American athletes do not have such serious starts, in fact,. Of course, there will be the IAAF Continental Cup in September, but they are cool for him
Therefore, I can badume that the current MacLeod world champion in this season is not really prepared for anything serious. My European rivals – the French Lagarde and the Spanish Ortega – fled in secret. At the Diamond League stadium in Monaco, they have already squeezed me hard. It's obvious that guys are getting ready for the European Championships. The battle there will be serious.
And in general the victory at the European Championships is never easy. Remember the 2014 Continental Championship in Zurich, when the situation was diametrically opposed. Lagarde beat everyone all season, won the Diamond League, missed 13 seconds. And he came to Zurich, he fell in the final – and nothing happened.
– In 2014 you won the European Championship, in 2016 you did not have the opportunity to defend the title
– Of course, there is
some desire to prove. But I'm getting ready to make it difficult. No need to think, I repeat, that the victory at the European Championships is almost in my pocket.
– Before the recurrence of the record of Europe, you have
– Of course, it is possible for me to improve the European record. But what I have to do for that, I do not know. American Aries Marrit, who set the world record, said that it is necessary to show for a very long time almost record seconds, and then break through. And the author of the European record Colin Jackson has said pretty much the same thing.
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– How many departures are still waiting this season?
– Four. This is the European Championships in Berlin, the Continental Cup in Ostrava, and between these tournaments there will be another start in Zagreb and the final of the Diamond League
– What do you think? you from the Novogorsk base near Moscow? Novogorsk "- it's really a very cool base.I like everything here a lot, everything is very compact.Everything is at hand – absolutely.It's what we need to train ourselves Here, it is possible to stay for weeks and to train without feeling any problem.
I repeat, in terms of training, everything is there, in the domestic plane too, everything is fine, the food is also beautiful.In addition, it should be noted that there is everything for a complete recovery after training.It is a pity that we only have a base of this level.While we were training in Sochi on "South Sport ", where everything is also very comfortable.
If we talk about the development of sports infrastructure, then, in my opinion, there are fewer objects for my sport.In 2013, the Championships of the athletics world took place at the Luzhniki Stadium, and now it has been transformed into a stadium. football and treadmills have been removed.
– What should the Russians expect at the European Championships in Berlin? Our, say, the team goes to this tournament in a very truncated composition for reasons beyond its control. Among those who will perform in Berlin will be those who, during the season, have really claimed the role of leader.
Therefore, we must all show this tournament the best result of the season. And then the problem will be solved. And I go to this tournament with good expectations, although I understand that it will not be easy to win there.
Albert Starodubtsev
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