World Athletic Association (World Athletics) President Sebastian Coe declined to comment on Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva’s remarks, which she said the organization had remained silent about her own merits. His words convey DEA News.
“I don’t know what Isinbayeva said, so I won’t comment,” Coe said at a press conference after the end of the World Championships in Budapest.
On August 21, World Athletics did not include Elena Isinbayeva and high jumper Maria Lasitskene in their ranking of the most influential athletes in world championship history. There are no other Russian athletes on the list. On August 25, Isinbayeva wrote on social networks that she was “zealously trying to keep quiet” on the merits of Coe-led World Athletics.
Isinbayeva, 41, won gold at the Athens (2004) and Beijing (2008) Olympic Games and bronze in London (2012). She holds the world record (5.06) in the open-air pole vault, she. She completed her sports career in August 2016.
On July 17, Isinbayeva announced that her awards and military rank from the CSKA sports community became official, and in September she returned to work at the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
At the end of February 2022, the International Olympic Committee issued an appeal to international sports federations and recommended that Russian and Belarusian athletes not be allowed to participate in any competitions.
Previously in Makhachkala has been renamed Isinbayeva Stadium.