MOSCOW, April 10, Sergey Fuks. 2022 Olympic relay champion Russian skier Sergey Ustyugov spoke about his chronic injuries in an interview. «All athletes have certain problems. This is normal. Everyone has injuries, sores, they are already chronic. You overload your back, most skiers have problems with it. Take, for example, Andrey Melnichenko He shakes his back, heals, but it still makes itself felt, because it is. And I have such a problem. Thanks to Dr. Andrei Vasilyevich Deryagin, that last year after the season he came to my village and helped restore my leg , injured at the World Championships, and back. Here the leg does not make itself felt, and the back needs to be dealt with periodically. Before the Olympics, we worked closely with the team doctor Anastasia Vladimirovna Tikhonova. I don’t know, without her I would not have started that season, I didn’t run ( smiling),” said Ustyugov. “I will say honestly, the guys from training come — someone calls home, someone watches movies, someone sticks on the Internet, and I go to work in the evenings with a doctor and a massage therapist (smiles). This is normal, this is such a profession, a favorite job. If you want to run fast, you need to take care of your body. In my youth, I may not have paid so much attention to this, because I love it when the muscles are not in hypertonicity, but are in good shape. If you relax me, then all sorts of falls happen, all that. It's you, journalists, who say that here he is, they say, filmed from behind, he has health problems. And then all sorts of haters write to me or meet me personally and say: “You are a whiner. So what, what are the health problems? Are you old?”, – he added. Read the full interview with Sergei Ustyugov on the website rsport.ria.ru
