Multiple synchronized swimming world champion Varvara Subbotine Believes that group competitions in synchronized swimming should be reserved for women.
Earlier, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved the International Swimming Federation rule, men will be able to make their synchronized swimming debut at the Games already in Paris.
“In my opinion, you still have to leave the group in a more traditional form, because you don’t know how a man will behave in a group,” Subbotina told . – It’s one thing, a program with only one partner, to which you have to adapt, and here there are six or seven girls. There are a lot of different factors and a lot of weird things in that decision. Physiologically, women and men are very different.
You have spoken negatively about it more than once. You haven’t changed your mind?
– My opinion is unchanged. I am in favor of the fact that the synchronized swimming group should be female.
– How did you perceive the story with the acrobatic group?
– There will be much more work, the same number of medals. It will also take longer to train – and so it was for ten hours, and now five hours of sleep, and the rest of the time to train? I don’t understand how this is calculated.
Source : MatchTV
