The head coach of the Russian National Swim Team, Anatoly Zhuravlev, is sending swimmers to a training camp in Spain, as part of preparations for the primary 2015 competitions. According to a Russian Federation Swim report, the Russian athletes will be completing their first training camp of the year at the Round Lake National Training Center from January 20th to February 8th before taking on the Mare Nostrum (late May/early June) and Russia Cup (mid-July) meets on their way to the World Championships in Kazan.
After the initial Round Lake stop, the group of athletes will be split between a second training camp on either the island of Tenerife or in Volgograd, Russia. Zhuravlev told the press that, “due to the difficult financial situation, it was decided to cut the number of athletes for the training camp in Spain. Only 15 athletes will be sent to Tenerife: swimmers from group coaches Mikhail Gorelik and Dmitry Shalagin, also Vitalina Simonova, along with her coach Alexander Ilyin will go there. The second group of athletes consisting of 16 people will go to Volgograd.”
The swimmers will also endure three additional training camps prior to the World Championship trials – one in Tsakhkadzor, Armenia (altitude camp), and additional visits to Volgograd and Round Lake NTC.
As for the athletes who live and train individually in different locales, Zhuravlev indicates that those swimmers will “come to the National Trials immediately before the start of the meet.”
The coach also revealed that the qualifying standards for the 2015 World Championships are now being finalized for his squad and will be published on the official Russian Swimming Federation website once determined.
when are russian olympic trials?
When you can’t bribe the judges, cheat on drugs.
Still new frightening news about Russia and doping.
Race-walk this time.
http://www.flotrack.org/articles/29501
“The investigations have found that of the 17 gold medals won by Russian walkers at the Olympics and World Championshps in the last decade, 16 were won by athletes who have been banned for doping at some stage of their careers or who are currently under investigation.”
😆 but also 😥
Don’t you know that doping bans are all just an American & EU conspiracy that harm innocent Russian athletes. So much so that the Russian race walkers have apparently decided that WADA bans no longer apply to them:
http://dunfeewalks.weebly.com/canadian-tf-blog/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-saransk-and-russia
Sounds like blood doping will be their tactic for Kazan…