Nikita Nagorny has taken a break from national training camps following the Olympics, although he still competed in Bundesliga and at the Artur Gander Memorial and the Swiss Cup. Nagorny originally announced his first national team camp would be in December but in the end, he will go back to Round Lake following the New Year vacation in the beginning of January. This will also be the first post-Tokyo camp for Artur Dalaloyan.
Nagorny told TASS, he’s eager to come back:
“I’ve recovered mentally in the sense that I had a lot of time after the Olympics to rest from the thoughts and worries that a competition was coming. Conveniently enough, I also needed to set my mind on other kind of work, relax, and change my surroundings. And now, by contrast, I really want to go back to the arena, to compete. The camp starts on January 7th – 8th.”
Nagorny hopes to start competing in the spring:
“I think we’ll have some competition in the spring. If I won’t compete then, it will be hard to recover later and I will already want to test some routines. Although, I guess, I can’t speak too soon because before I compete, I’ll need to learn the routines. But the rules have changed now. They didn’t get more difficult, it’s just you do one routine for four years, downgrade or upgrade it, and then the rules change completely.”
Nagorny said he will have to change half of what he’s been doing in competition:
“It’s not easy and, in any case, you get used to the routines, that is, iron them out for, perhaps, a year. It’s not safe to compete right away, but if I’ll feel that I’ll have gotten used to my routines, I’ll compete at the closest competitions. Because everyone knows I can train [only] if there are competitions [ahead].
