Scandals with coaches and the issue of Shipulin: the first two months of the SBR with the new president – Biathlon News

On May 18, Vladimir Drachev was elected head of the Russian Biathlon Union (UBR). Often, the work of the winter federations in the summer malobyutyny. Generally speaking, all kinds of bureaucratic issues are being dealt with at this time, athletes have heavy and monotonous drills, and coaches have too little food for thought. The noisy news even of popular biathlon in the information environment is very rare. Usually, the flywheel begins to turn in the middle of autumn, when it is time to select the national team. However, the first months of Drachev's presidency proved far from being calm.

And he has barely planned to do it. Practically in all areas of activity there was news with a minus sign, and somewhere – and really scandals.

It all started with an ugly story with Valery Polkhovsky. First, the appointment of a specialist was announced, then everything suddenly changed, and no one explained to Polkhovsky. The management of the SBR has a stance on what happened, the coach has a completely different, but, whist no matter, Dracheva has not added any history

In a number of ways, it has also inspired many other scholars to take decisive action. National team. And if with Andrei Prokunin, who is currently trained by Ukrainian women, some negotiations were conducted only with words, then Sergey Bashkirov and Pavel Lantsov worked in the national team, even this season . It's only the SBR that's so tight with the signing of contracts with them that coaches in such an unstable situation have decided not to trust the promises of someone from 19459018 and from leave them where they were immediately signed. Bashkirov in Korea and Lantsov in Canada

In the context of such losses, the recent scandal involving a 25-year-old coach, Vladislav Tulaev, was particularly telling.

But early May, Drachev seemed interested in the invitation of the national team as coach of the legendary Ole Einar Bjoerndalen …

The tightening with the signature contracts with the coaches was not due to the fact that they were looked at or did not trust. The management of the SBR simply had problems accessing its own accounts. According to the "SE" Alexander Kravtsov left the federation in the dark. However, Drachev could not use these funds, since his signature was illegitimate until Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov approved this right. It's happened recently. Why the process took so long – it is not very clear. Kravtsov, for example, at one point had access to the bills left after Mikhail Prokhorov, just a week after his appointment.

Hope now that there will be no financial problems for the RRF. In addition, serious sponsors had to be fired for Drachov. In his speech at the conference on reporting and elections he insists a lot

But there are still big problems to solve. And Drachev can not complain about this issue, he accepted a federation whose membership in the International Biathlon Union (IBU) was already suspended.

On the other hand, the quadruple world champion knew what he was doing. The June IBU Executive Committee did not return the former status of the RRF and now that will not happen, at least until the beginning of September, while the Croatian Porec does not host the congress of the International Federation. What will happen if our biathlon is not rehabilitated and there even thinking terrible.

At the same time, we will suffer losses anyway. In Croatia, among other things, there will be elections for leadership positions and the Russians will not be able to present their candidates because of the status of the RBS. In other words, all fundamental decisions of the world biathlon in the coming years will be accepted without our participation. Victor Maigurov, who will be promoted to the post of First Vice President IBU of the Byelorussian Federation of Belarus, was struggling in this situation. The benefit is that he has the citizenship of a neighboring state with Russia.

Here all the fun starts closer to the selection. Although the decisions that have generated arguments have already been made. They published a list of teams for the season, they had time to criticize him, and a few days later he was changed.

In in general, there are no questions about the final version. Even Alexei Slepov, who was considered the base of the SBR, but who did not want to take it back, and Alexei Volkov, who won everything in the biathlon, will be at the expense of centralized training at the expense of regions. And if everything goes according to the promised plan, the composition will be determined solely on the basis of the results of the control formations.

The only question, although important, remains open: the future of Anton Shipulin. While the team was preparing for the training camp, the leader of the Russian team was attached to football, with pleasure at the matches of the World Cup in Yekaterinburg. He will continue his career – is still unknown. Apparently, the leadership of the SBR too. With Shipulin, you have to negotiate, understand what he wants, discuss moments, different points of view. After all, the athlete is comfortable working with Andrei Kryuchkov on an individual level, and Drachev is a categorical supporter of centralized training.

But the initiative must come from the SBU. It is in the interest of the team. And if up to the last wait of Shipulin, it can be extremely sad for the whole team. And it will be too late to do anything . What is the point of bringing the case to this?

In general, the Russian Biathlon still is going through a difficult period and the first few months for Drachev as a leader has proved to be extremely difficult. There are many problems in all areas that need to be resolved as soon as possible.

But that does not automatically mean that the disastrous season awaits us and that it will only worsen later. The chicks in the fall believe. Maybe Drachev is one of those who sway for a long time before making a good decision? To test that, you have to give it time.

Let's remember the football team. In him too, no one believed in it, the coach was severely criticized, but there is nothing to say about the president of the Russian Football Union (RFU). And how did all this come out in the end? Maybe biathlon will make us change all our shoes?