SYKTYVKAR, March 30, Sergey Fuks. Four-time Olympic champion Soviet skier Raisa Smetanina considers it incorrect to compare his regalia with the achievements of the winner of the 2022 Games in Beijing, Natalia Nepryaeva. Nepryaeva is 26 years old. At the 2022 Olympics, she won three medals — gold, silver and bronze. The Russian woman is the current owner of a large Crystal Globe. «Such a comparison is in vain. Because now they run six or seven distances, and at one time we had only three. If there were so many distances at that time, then, I’m not even talking about myself, (four-time Olympic champion) Galina Kulakova would not have been equal either. No need to compare it, «said Smetanina.
