Sergey Korol: the Russian Alpine ski and snowboard federation will stimulate athletes to reach specific goals at the Olympic Games

The Russian Alpine ski and snowboard federation (RASSF) will additionally stimulate its athletes, if they reach the individual goals put before them at the Olympic Games in Vancouver. Sergey Korol, the executive director of the Russian Alpine ski and snowboard federation, told about it to the Agency of sport information “All Sport”.

“First of all I want to thank the Government of the Russian Federation - in particular, the RF Ministry of sports, tourism and youth policy, and “The Russian Olympian Foundation” for the financial support, material preferences, which have been made to the Russian athletes, - Sergey Korol said. - The amount of prize money for the Olympic medal in Russia is one the largest in the World. In case of successful participation at the Games, the athlete will receive the prize money from the government, the Foundation, from his region - and this all together makes an impressive sum indeed. At the same time the Russian Alpine ski and snowboard federation won’t also stay aside from this process. There is a concrete goal put before every our athlete who goes to the Olympic Games in Vancouver. For somebody the goal is a medal, for others - the place within the first 15 and so on, depending on the level of preparation. The federation will stimulate the athletes on reaching these goals. But I won’t say right now the concrete sums - I think it is not ethically right. We can promise even 10 million dollars for a gold medal in men alpine ski, practically without any risk. That’s why we put an individual goal before each athlete, taking into consideration his own experience, we stimulate the boys and girls to make specifically this goal. The athletes certainly know about it”.