Hard work or talent: what helps the champion to reach the top. Republican swimming competitions for the Cup of the Head of the Republic of Crimea are being held in Simferopol these days. Two-time Olympic champion (2021, Tokyo, silver medalist at the 2020 Olympic Games (4x200m relay), bronze medalist at the 2016 Olympic Games (200m backstroke) Yevgeny Rilov talked about what helps athletes reach the top. According to him, the key role to work and suffer is played by not talent. "I would probably prefer hard work to talent. Although not to say I had no talent is a lie. Hard work is the ability to endure, and the ability to endure certain difficult situations, it seems to me, is more significant than simply loving to work," Rilov said. Honored Master of Sports of Russia, bronze medalist of the 2012 Olympic Games in the 4x100 meter freestyle relay, Director of Sports for Swimming in the Russian Federation for Water, Sergey Peskov, in turn, noted that talent is only 1% of success, and the rest is achieved through hard work from the very first steps in sports. "Talent is only 1% of success. It is the 1% that plays the most central role already in obtaining an Olympic medal. This is exactly where Olympus is achieved, and 99% is just hard work," Psykov said. Image created by AI Listen to the broadcast of "Radio Crimea".

Hard work or talent: what helps the champion to reach the top. Republican swimming competitions for the Cup of the Head of the Republic of Crimea are being held in Simferopol these days. Two-time Olympic champion (2021, Tokyo, silver medalist at the 2020 Olympic Games (4x200m relay), bronze medalist at the 2016 Olympic Games (200m backstroke) Yevgeny Rilov talked about what helps athletes reach the top. According to him, the key role to work and suffer is played by not talent. "I would probably prefer hard work to talent. Although not to say I had no talent is a lie. Hard work is the ability to endure, and the ability to endure certain difficult situations, it seems to me, is more significant than simply loving to work," Rilov said. Honored Master of Sports of Russia, bronze medalist of the 2012 Olympic Games in the 4x100 meter freestyle relay, Director of Sports for Swimming in the Russian Federation for Water, Sergey Peskov, in turn, noted that talent is only 1% of success, and the rest is achieved through hard work from the very first steps in sports. "Talent is only 1% of success. It is the 1% that plays the most central role already in obtaining an Olympic medal. This is exactly where Olympus is achieved, and 99% is just hard work," Psykov said. Image created by AI Listen to the broadcast of "Radio Crimea".