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Klāvs Lisovskis, Merele Smuldersa, Laura Smuldersa
BMX cycling is no longer a sport for crazy 20-year-olds, because nowadays systematic work is needed to achieve high-quality results, said coach Klavs Lisovsky in an interview with TVNET, whose student from the Netherlands won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics this week.
Lisovsky’s student Merel Smulders took third place in the final race, behind only Mariana Pahon (Colombia) and Bethany Shrevere (Great Britain). Latvian BMX cycling specialist trains two sisters – Merela (23 years old) and Laura (27 years old). In 2018, the sisters won a double victory in the world championship – the oldest gold, the youngest silver.
“I trained two sisters. In 2018, the oldest mass became the world champion, the youngest, who is now an Olympic medalist, was second at the time. We went to the Olympic Games with both sisters with reasonable hopes of winning a medal. start times, but in the quarterfinals there was a fall, so I had to withdraw from the competition, “said the coach.
“So the sister got excited and made it to the grand final. Once you hit that barrier, everything can happen there. The final race was exactly what the youngest sister finally managed to do. “Put everything in its place. It gave a result that we are happy about,” said Lisovsky.
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