Ukrainian high jumper Yaroslava Maguchy spoke about the Russian Elena Kulichenko, who has represented Cyprus since 2021 in the broadcast of “Snidanok s 1+1”. Athletes competed together at the 2023 World Championship.
We have suspended Belarusian and Russian athletes in athletics. They are absent in the international arena. But I had a daughter who changed her citizenship before the military special operation began in the industry (the wording was changed according to the official position of the Russian Federation). from Cyprus.
I did not communicate with him, but to be honest I was very unpleasant. Because you know, everything that is going on in Ukraine is spinning in my head all of a sudden. All this, of course, is very sad. That is why I am really grateful that there are no longer athletes from Russia and Belarus in the arena, ”said Maguchikh.
Kulichenko decided to change his sports citizenship to Cypriot in 2021. He lives and studies in the USA. Thanks to his father, a businessman, he managed to get Cypriot citizenship, as he invested more than 2 million Euros.
He won the 2023 European Junior Athletics Championships held in Espoo, Finland on 17 July. This is the first gold medal in the history of Cyprus.
On August 8, Kulichenko won the silver medal in the high jump at the Universiade in Chengdu, China.
Formerly Maguchy shouted nationalist slogan.