Latvian bobsleighers have already held three training camps for two weeks – the first in ascetic conditions in Usma and the next two in Ventspils, but the fourth will start on August 31 in Sigulda.
There were 23 to 25 bobsleighers in each of the camps due to injuries or family growth.
Olympic champion pilot Oskars Melbārdis did not participate in the third training camp. he does not return to bobsleigh. Arvi Vilkasti, the pusher of the fourth Golden Four man, was also tormented by injuries last season, which prevented him from going to the start of the World Championship.
“Melbārdis is not ready to do the work that the other” jacks “are at the moment. He needs individual work now so that his health is not further damaged. We already did without him at the World Cup last year. Nothing is eternal. must talk, “talk to” TvNet “says Prussia. “This is the right time for the young and potentially next in the rankings to break into the team and prove themselves. Bobsleigh needs to move forward even without our champions.”
Of the new ones, the coach notes the promising pilots who started in the European Cups last season – Emīls Cipuli and Dāvis Kaufmanis, saying that Cipulis is very physically advanced.
This season Latvia has provided the right to start with three crews, but it will be decided yet. At the end of November, the first stage of the World Cup season is scheduled for Sigulda, but it is not yet 100% certain that it will happen due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Latvia could start with three crews in both doubles and fours, but this is not the goal of the team, because there are more European Cup series competitions.
If the weather allows and will not be too warm, in September the team will go to the Sigulda start platform. Prūsis once again regrets that the reconstruction plan of the “Daugava” stadium in Riga no longer provides for a launch platform.
“There is a clear lack of its overpass. Apart from the seasons when we used it as an ice overpass for about six to seven years, we used it as a summer overpass for another 17 seasons – without ice, but on the rails,” Prussia explains. “Suddenly it has been ‘cut off.’ And the most trivial thing is that none of the representatives of the Latvian Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (LBF) was warned about it. In 2017, the reconstruction of the stadium began, where builders had a room to change clothes and store tools. I know the builders have moved out of there, they need repairs if I am not mistaken for EUR 26 000. It did not have the money while everything around is being built for millions. At first there were funds but no political will. Somewhere in the corridors of power, our idea was eliminated. “
Prūsis mentions that the launch platform in Sigulda cannot be used in warm weather, moreover, it is too short for four.
Last year, at the World Championships on the German track in Altenberg, Oskars Ķibermanis together with pusher Matīss Miknis became the bronze medalists in doubles, becoming the champions at the European Championship in Sigulda.
In the overall standings of the World Cup, the two steered by Kibermanis finished second, but in fours – the fourth.
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