“We can’t bring fat women to the national team performance, it will look ridiculous.” Pokrovskaya – about Valitova’s lyrics about eating disorders

Head Coach of the Russian National Synchronized Swimming Team Tatiana Pokrovskaya told that she found the comments of the five-time synchronized swimming world champion strange Darina Valitova that during her sports career, she had problems with eating behavior.

Earlier, Valitova in an interview with YouTube channel Peretrem said that during her sports career she suffered from an eating disorder. According to the athlete, one day a trainer approached her and told her that she was “fat”. Moreover, according to Valitova, lower-level colleagues told her to refuse to eat. Valitova was so preoccupied with the diet that at one time she weighed 38 kilograms.

– The words of Valitova, who left the national team for five years, are very surprising. We have no such that we prohibit athletes from eating. If a girl has a weight problem, we just let her know.

After all, we have a national team, we can’t bring fat women to the performance, it will look ridiculous. Therefore, Darina’s words after so long seem strange to me. Maybe she has nothing to do and wanted to remember herself.

Of course, some girls have problems, someone has to get in shape. These are natural problems. But Valitova’s words are simply inappropriate and irrelevant, Pokrovskaya told .

Valitova performed in group and duet competitions with Alexander Maltsev.