Sofya Velikaya: “There is a high level of fencing in Russia, that’s why they are afraid of us and don’t want to let us go anywhere”

Down-the-line.com / Fencing. Russian fencer, Olympic champion Sofia Velikaya spoke about the withdrawal of Russian athletes from competitions. Earlier it became known that the International Fencing Federation did not include the main Russian athletes in the list for admission to tournaments in a neutral status.

“As for the 2024 Olympics, every day new information comes out, facts change and we don’t know what will happen tomorrow. Something may be resolved.

Yegoryan: “It’s not us who should try to get into international competitions, but they should dream that we fence with them”

At the moment we are fencing at home, we have an international tournament, our friends have come to visit us, we have a high level of fencing, so they are afraid of us and don’t want to let us go anywhere.

But if that changes, we will always be ready to play only at the highest level,” Velikaya TASS quoted.