actually had such goals in mind and experts knew that i had just one year to prepare for the event coover games while there were many issues with the winter sports that had been snowballing for decades in the mid eighty's dozens of new sports who were added to the winter olympics list which only there are a number of sports russians have always been good at like ice hockey figure skating speed skating ski racing and my athlone other sports like short track speed skating curling freestyle skiing snowboarding ski jumping alpine skiing in nordic combined are less traditional for russia so it would be wishful thinking to expect a spectacular success in then cooler that would show let's go back to the summer lympics in england and you said their main competitor for the fourth place is the only kingdom which implies that russia is not going to competing for the first or second prize nitwits who were both born and raised in the u.s.s.r. and in those dimes we had the highest expectations were athletes so for us this is a huge step back are you frustrated over this you were stranded no i would put