Bolat Izutdinov, coach of the Russian junior women’s taekwondo team, on the program “There is a theme!” on “” offered to transfer the transition of athletes from Russia to other teams on a material basis.
16-year-old former Russian figure skater Sofia Samodelkina accepted Kazakh citizenship in accordance with the general procedure. Samodelkina is the winner and stage winner of the Russian Grand Prix. At the moment, Russian skaters are not allowed to participate in international competitions due to the situation in Ukraine.
– When even the strongest athletes don’t leave, it kills the competition. A leader without back-breathing athletes will not become who he is.
Regarding the change of nationality… We cannot forbid it. It’s only two years of quarantine. These athletes have a cold calculation, their parents have invested money in them, so they go to another country. Why can’t we treat them with the same cold calculation? Fix the price. Letting go of an athlete costs $100,000, for example. Create a database for each child when he arrived at the sports school. The money is his. Open an account immediately. If he leaves, makes a transfer, then let him go, and we will receive a certain amount. And let the money go to the development of a sports school in this region or a federation of this sport.
We are now talking about a young figure skater, but there are also conscious adult athletes who are already masters of the sport. It would not be superfluous, if they return, to establish to them that they can work on a commercial basis as trainers. But they should not become coaches of national teams, directors of sports schools and budgetary sports organizations. Sport is the patriotic education of youth. And what kind of patriotism can such an athlete instill? Izutdinov said on .
Earlier, the head of the State Duma Committee for Physical Culture and Sports Dmitry Svishchev told that the deputies were discussing the introduction of compensation when athletes change sports citizenship.
Source : MatchTV
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