110m hurdles world champion Sergei Shubenkov said he received a lot of negative messages from athletes on social media because of the situation in Ukraine.
– Which of the foreign rivals wrote words of support?
I don’t really have a lot of contacts. Once upon a time written (Jamaican) Hansl Parchment, Tokyo Olympic champion in the 110 meter hurdles. (British) Colin Jackson, out of old friendship, asked me why I didn’t go to Tokyo initially. And now… you won’t believe it, but most of the foreign contacts are the old fraternal republics, anyway, it’s always been like that, Ukraine, Belarus, there were a lot of contacts there -down. Well, you can guess what they started writing, Shubenkov told .
– Ukrainians in artistic gymnastics in a “staff” wrote to our not the most pleasant things.
– I have the same. Maybe not so massively. First of all, I follow a lot of people and their posts appeared in the feed, full of tin. Olga Saladukha immediately began to write to the IOC (International Olympic Committee), so that no one was allowed anywhere, so that there would be no Olympic Games for us. And then they continued in private.
– Blocked someone?
– Yes, a lot of people had to be blocked, then I left the social network. And before that, everything was going towards that, I realized that I had no business there, but then they gave me a reason.
In February, the IOC recommended that international federations prevent Russian and Belarusian athletes from participating in competitions due to the situation in Ukraine. Many federations followed these recommendations and withdrew Russians and Belarusians.
Source : MatchTV
