“” host and commentator Dmitri Guberniev said he was really sorry Maria Lasitskene but the question of other Russian athletes who are not Olympic champions and do not have the right to participate in international competitions remains painful.
Earlier, Olympic high jump champion Maria Lasitskene, after competing in the Russian Athletics Team Championship in Sochi, expressed the opinion that her international career was over and burst into tears in the mixed zone.
– I am terribly sorry for Masha Lasitskene, she took a full sip from a bitter cup. But unlike a whole generation, she is an Olympic champion and three-time world champion. Masha with her Olympic gold will remain for centuries. But what to do about the rest is unclear. Young people, and even a whole generation that does not know how to perform without a flag or anthem, and which no longer performs at all. Like no one else, I understand Masha, her pain, but I want to say once again that she has achieved her career. Even skipping one Olympics, but playing very successfully at another. But what about the rest? This is our pain, my commentary and universal. Athletes have turned out to be hostages to this situation, Guberniev told a correspondent.
Lasickene won gold at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. In addition, the 30-year-old has three world championship gold medals, one European championship gold medal, 26 victories at the stages of the Diamond League, as well as a number of gold medals won at the World and European Indoor Championships.
At the end of March, it was announced that the membership of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) in the World Athletics Association (World Athletics) had been restored after seven and a half years, but the suspension of Russians and Belarusians international competitions has been extended due to the situation in Ukraine.
Source : MatchTV
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