Head coach of the Russian diving team Svetlana Moiseeva, in an interview with , called low attendance the biggest problem after hosting the Russian championship in Yekaterinburg.
The national championship ended on Thursday. It was the first big start at the new Palace of Water Sports in Yekaterinburg.
— Svetlana Borisovna, how difficult was the first start in the new facility?
– It’s very difficult, there have been a lot of misunderstandings about how it should work. I am grateful to the people who have helped us as much as possible here, but in general I must say that the system is not set up to organize competitions. In the beginning, there were a lot of problems with a pass for the installation, with security measures – as if we had come with the objective of destroying this installation. I wish some basic things fit better even at this point.
But the biggest problem is the empty stands. We wanted to have a big sports party and it didn’t work out, even though we tried our best. Meetings with athletes and various related activities were also planned. We wanted to have a solemn atmosphere, but it turned out that in terms of solemnity in Penza, the event went better, because when the stands are active, it’s a different feeling. Here is the void.
In Saratov, at the Eurasian Countries Cup, we had people queuing to get into the stands. Here they made a ticket sale through a website where they write that all tickets are sold, then it turned out that about 70 people did not make it to the stands – they could not issue this post,” Moiseeva told .
According to the press service of the Russian Diving Federation “”, the organization of the ticket program was carried out by the Center for Organization and Conduct of Sports and Physical Culture Events.
Live broadcasts of the Russian Diving Championship from June 24 to 29 were broadcast by the Match outfit television channels, as well as the sportbox.ru and matchtv.ru websites.
Source : MatchTV
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