Bashenko regained the post of president of the cycling federation through the court
Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine Vadim Gutzeit commented conflict in Ukrainian cycling between Andrey Grivko and Alexander Bashenko and the influence of the ministry on the personnel policy of the federations.
– Andrei Grivko convinces that this is your influence – the appearance of Bashenko in the registers of the Ministry of Justice.
– I do not interfere in the courts through which Bashenko returned to office. This is some kind of fable that Mr. Grivko… I don’t know if you know him well. Maybe in time you will understand what kind of person he is.
– What do you have in mind?
Well, interesting person. You will understand. How can I be a federation raider if there was one court, another. How can I influence the courts? These are such fables, in Grivka everyone is to blame. From the first day of the war, he sits in Monaco, does not appear in Ukraine at all, but says that everyone is to blame. That everyone does not work, only he works alone. Well, God grant him health, all victories, good luck.
When I fail, I look for the reason in myself. And the mess that Grivko made in cycling… This is very bad for the development of cycling. What he writes and does is not solid. Not masculine. I have a lot to tell, who does what, but I stand above it. Positions are temporary, and most importantly, humanity.
I’m not a girl to be loved. And the fact that some federation presidents are not happy with me is normal. But the majority support me and see what the minister is doing in his place. And before the war – during covid, how much was done. This has not been done in the last 30 years, as much as Gutzeit has done in the office of minister over the past two years. How many new sports facilities, how much funding for sports has been increased, how many athletes are dressed, how many regulations to improve sports. Professionals see it.
Of course, he is jealous of those who are against me. This is a normal process.
– But Grivka’s claim is primarily that Gutzeit wants to control the federations in order to control the movement of budget funds. For example, due to the appointment of state coaches.
– Firstly, the ministry is the budgetary funds for which the minister is responsible. And the ministry chooses state trainers according to their professionalism. If the federations offer professional people, we support it. But we have people working in the ministry who are not just signing papers. All professional and experienced. And if they see that they are offering “their own”, and not professional ones, we understand that the minister is responsible for the result.
To whom was the question when Kilipko did not have a coach at the Olympic Games? To me, and not to Mr. Safiulin, the president of the athletics federation, who did not work as he should. And so it goes for every sport.
Federations are public organizations, they plan and use funds to provide training and participation in competitions. Of course, there is a result and there are powerful people with experience. Of course, the opinion of the federation is more important. But when there are questions to the federation, when there are some squabbles, then we intervene somewhere. This is a normal process.
Because there are federations that offer a coach who has worked for three Olympic cycles, but there were no medals.
Recall that in the summer the head of the Ukrainian Cycling Federation was replaced. Instead of Andrey Grivko, who headed the organization since 2019, it was Alexander Bashenko, whom Grivko then replaced in his position. Later, the court recognized Bashenko’s resignation as unlawful.
Source: Sportarena
