MOSCOW, April 6, Sergey Fuks. Head coach of the Russian national team Yuri Borodavko in the interview said that team leader Alexander Bolshunov had a hard time recovering from injuries in preparation for the 2022 Olympics. Last year, in the offseason, Bolshunov fell off his bike at a training camp in Crimea, injured his teeth and arm, and the athlete also had problems with Achilles tendons. In October, Bolshunov underwent surgery due to a problem with a cyst that arose after an improperly healed filling of the nerve canal of the tooth. At the Beijing Games, Bolshunov won three gold, one silver and one bronze medals. «Whenever an athlete is seriously injured, the coach immediately thinks how much time should pass to recover, what work he will have time to do or not have time to do. How to plan what, whether his body will be able to recover properly after an injury.For me, of course, the most serious test was a fall on a bicycle in the Crimea.Then I really understood that the fall was very serious, I prayed to God that there would be no ruptures of internal organs from the fall so that the nerves were not damaged. There was an injury to the hand, besides, a fall always entails serious consequences. But God had mercy, and it all went quite normally. But then I saw it all live, it all happened before my eyes, and then Of course, there were the most serious experiences,» Borodavko said.
