Changing sports citizenship is a personal matter for everyone, says Denis Lebedev

Former WBA and IBF heavyweight world champion Denis Lebedev in a conversation with , he answered the question about the change of citizenship of Russian athletes due to the inability to compete on the international stage.

– Changing sports citizenship is a personal matter for everyone. Who and how was raised, who has what inside. Some will condemn it, others will not. Again, this is a personal matter. Someone will take it as a betrayal,” Lebedev told .

Earlier, tennis player Daria Kasatkina spoke about how young Russian tennis players should think about changing their sporting citizenship to be able to perform on the world stage. Russian State Duma Deputy Roman Teryushkov said he had made a proposal to equate changing the sports citizenship of Russian athletes with high treason.

Source : MatchTV

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