Katinka Hosszu Calls On Hungarian Management To Resign
Katinka Hosszu has put the Hungarian Swimming Federation on full blast and known as for the management’s resignation following Paris 2024.
Hungary received three medals at La Protection Enviornment with Kristof Milak and Hubert Kos taking gold within the 100 fly and 200 again respectively with the previous additionally taking 200 fly silver.
Milak has spent quite a lot of time away from the water since withdrawing in June 2023 from the World Championships in Fukuoka to give attention to his bodily and psychological wellbeing.
After 11 weeks away, Milak returned to coaching in September and dedicated to Paris and past as he sought to retain the 200 fly title he claimed in Tokyo.
The 200 world record-holder was slated to seem on the 2023 World Cup tour which took in Berlin and Athens earlier than concluding in Budapest.
Nevertheless, Milak didn’t seem and Swimming World discovered the swimmer was coaching as soon as every week at most prompting nationwide workforce head coach Csaba Sos to demand a change in method.
The next months featured absences from coaching though he did quite a lot of dryland coaching and it wasn’t till April that he returned to competitors on the Hungarian Championships.
Regardless of all this, the 24-year-old headed the Paris 200 semis in 1:52.72 and after 150m of the ultimate, Milak appeared heading in the right direction to retain his Tokyo title.
Leon Marchand, nevertheless, drew alongside the Hungarian earlier than accelerating into the wall in an Olympic report of 1:51.21 with Milak 0.54 adrift in 1:51.75.
He roared again to win the 100 fly as he upgraded his Tokyo silver to gold.
For Hosszu, who received three golds and a silver at Rio 2016, Milak was let down, his lack of endurance on the finish of the race resulting in defeat by Marchand and a direct consequence of his lack of preparation.
She launched an open letter to the Hungarian federation (MUSZ) on social media with Milak’s coach Balázs Virth, MUSZ president Sándor Wladár and workforce coach Csaba Sos in her crosshairs.
Her letter learn:
“After studying the Hungarian public, I don’t perceive why journalists are being attacked, they solely did their jobs and communicated the phrases of the president of MUSZ, the captain of MUSZ and the coach of Kristóf Milák.
“There has by no means been a MUSZ management who has broken the preparation of its finest contender a lot.
“Bob Bowman (coach of Leon Marchand) knew months earlier than the Olympics that his pupil needed to put together for the final 50 meters of the 200-meter butterfly, bodily, however principally mentally. In Paris, Bowman needed to say just one factor to Marchand: “You skilled the toughest on the planet, you’ll meet up with Milák within the final 50, who skilled hardly this 12 months, you deserve the gold medal”
“Sadly, this isn’t the primary Olympic Medal which isn’t realized because of the management of MUSZ, however we hope will probably be the final.
“Milák is simply the tip of the iceberg, let’s give it some thought in the event that they do that with the world record-holder and Olympic champion, what is going to the opposite rivals do?
“The management of MUSZ did the precise reverse of what they have been speculated to do. They didn’t full the “job” and even acquired it cancelled.
“After such insidious and spineless behaviour, the one respectable step can be the resignation of all the management. They should transfer again from the battle subject.”
She added: “Already in my time there was a disagreement between the 80s technology and the management of MUSZ, this solely grew to become more practical with the following technology.
“They shouldn’t be allowed to additional injury Hungarian sport.”
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