Kovaleva about the early loss of the United States: torturing Americans further is disrespect

Beijing, February 10, Alexander Bokulev. Continuation of the fight against the Americans until the end of the match The Olympics would be disrespectful to rivals, Alina Kovaleva, skipper of the Russian curling team, told reporters. until the end, if you already understand the outcome of the meeting. Tormenting the opponent would be disrespect on our part. I would like to save our own strength a little, and it would probably not be very good for the opponents to continue, «Kovaleva explained. «Of course, we planned a little to start differently in this competition, but it turned out how it turned out. We draw conclusions and move on. We didn’t really have a few first ends, but the score allowed us to catch up and overtake. We just had to fulfill our throws, «the athlete added. Russian curlers will play their next match at the Olympics on Friday against the Swiss team.