Russian basketball champion Alexander Dedouchkin on the air of the program “There is a theme!” on “” said that in Russia there is no sports diplomacy.
Previously, European swimming champion Anastasia Kirpichnikova announced that she had changed her sporting nationality to become French. The 22-year-old swimmer has been living and training in France for several years. For the second season, she did not play in Russian competitions.
It doesn’t matter how you end your career. In your homeland they may say that you are a traitor, a defector. Perhaps Anastasia’s statement is tailor-made. That it is not dangerous, that it is possible. We have absolutely no sports diplomacy.
In basketball, a number of high-level foreigners have now left, university guys have arrived. But there are other examples: a man from the France team came to Zenit [Томас Эртель]who risked playing for the national team. We can take not only money. The VTB League has become much more interesting. Many more Russians started playing. Foreign experts examine them. Under the USSR, foreigners did not come to us to perform, Dedushkin told .
Kirpichnikova is the first Russian woman in history to compete in the Olympic Games in swimming pool and open water.
Source : MatchTV
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