Olympic champion in double skating Elena Berezhnaya called the desire of some athletes of the Russian national team to change their sports citizenship as an outrageous move.
“If you don’t depend on anyone, if you train on your own, if you pay for the coach and the ice, you can decide your own destiny.
But if you are in the country’s team, if the federation supports you, invests money in you, if you represent Russia in serious tournaments, then changing the flag is already ugly,” Berezhnoy quotes. “Sport every day”.
From the spring of 2022, Russian skaters are not allowed to compete in tournaments under the auspices of the International Skating Union (ISU). Thus, representatives of Russia did not perform at the 2022 World Championship in Montpellier, the International Grand Prix tournaments and the 2023 European Championship.
Recall that at the end of February 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) made an appeal to international sports federations and advised not to allow domestic and Belarusian athletes to participate in any competitions. For this reason, the ISU suspended Russian and Belarusian athletes from competitions indefinitely.
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