Olympic synchronized swimming champion Marina Goliadkina on the air of the program “There is a theme!” on the channel “” commented on the change of short track player Sofia Prosvirnova sports citizenship from Russian to Danish.
The 25-year-old has announced his intention to change sport citizenship and play for the Danish national team in the future. After the Beijing Olympics, Prosvirnova married Danish speed skater Viktor Torup. As Sofya told earlier, the Danish Federation and the Russian Skating Union have approved her transition. According to Prosvirnova, she decided to take such a step because of her family.
– This subject is very close to me. At the age of 14, I changed nationality. I was a citizen of Ukraine. In 2014, they assigned everything to me. But I also moved because of my family. I was born in Donetsk and was at a decent level in the Ukrainian national team, but moved to Russia. It was a difficult choice. It cannot be excluded that Prosvirnova also did everything for the sake of her family. What’s wrong with that? If a person openly says this for the sake of a career, then I consider it a betrayal,” Golyadkina said on .
Prosvirnova is a five-time European champion, two-time silver medalist and two-time bronze medalist of the World Championships, winner of the 2019 Universiade.
Source : MatchTV
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