Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin believes the skater Mikhail Koliada it’s worth ending your career.
– A question about Mikhail Kolyada. What to do?
– End!
– Does it make sense to continue?
– We do not know! They keep quiet. Now I read the interview of him – a word or two in the answer. They do not speak. Well, please, if such a secret, be silent. The boy is not 13-14, there you can hope for the future. And man, excuse me, he didn’t even compete in the last Olympics.
And where were you from the Russian championship at the beginning of this season? Without any attachment, low bow to this man’s talent. But just to say that he’s got talent, that we wait—well, I’m tired of waiting.
I searched the air for the phrase, “Your expectations are your problems,” as he said Arshavin. Yes, these are my problems, here I am sharing my problem with you: what I have been waiting for. I want to see, do not wait! Only a person, i.e. without character, cannot collect items. But this is his life, not mine. I speak purely on the sidelines of what is happening.
Why do others with less data dig into the ice and struggle? Are items sometimes taken out of the coffin? Misha no. And here, it seems to me, the matter is not in Alexei Nikolaevich (Mishin). It’s just that there are such people – unrealistic talent, but nerves, head.
Here, in my opinion, absolutely everything is clear to everyone. But they will still tell me: shut up, Alexei, and be correct. And I think I am absolutely right in my statements. And I will continue to speak.
Did you have a personal conversation with him?
– We met at the First Channel Cup. I have no such thing as to treat some more sympathetically & find fault with others. Why comment on someone who is unsuccessful, but is in a different situation? And here… Excuse me, just a man without character, as they say. Without the character of a champion. As soon as more pressure – everything, – said Yagudin.
