Beijing, February 2, Oleg Bogatov. Winning one medal of any value will be successful result of the performance of the Russian team in luge at the Olympics in Beijing, said three-time silver medalist of the Games, ex-head coach of the national team Albert Demchenko. The Olympics will be held on February 4-20, lugers will compete for four sets of awards. At the 2014 Sochi Games, the Russians won two silver medals (success was achieved by Demchenko in the men's competition and the relay team consisting of Demchenko, Tatyana Ivanova and the deuce Alexander Denisiev/Vladislav Antonov). Four years later, in Pyeongchang, the athletes could not break into the prize-winners in any of the disciplines. «The season for our team, let's say, was not entirely clear,» Demchenko believes. «The results of the first stage of the World Cup, which took place (in November 2021) at In the Olympic disciplines at the World Cup stages, we won medals only in Sochi (the second was the crew of Andrei Bogdanov/Yuri Prokhorov, the third — Roman Repilov), and Tatyana Ivanova won bronze in Sigulda. China, the track will be new for everyone, so it's hard to make any predictions now.» «In the course of the season I was not in the team and it's hard for me to comment on something,» the agency's interlocutor added. «If our team wins one medal of any value, then it will be a good result of the performance at the Olympics. If the athletes had a better season in terms of achievements, then we could talk about other tasks. This is the Olympics, I repeat, it is difficult to build forecasts. Oh God, so that our team has more medals. Both men and women have chances.
