“No one invited us to the World Junior Championships” – head of the Russian Diving Federation

President of the Russian Diving Federation Stanislav Druzhinin (RFPV) on the Loud program on said that Russia was not invited to the World Junior Championship, which will be held in the Philippines.

– Instead of the Universiade, we will have a big youth festival in Yekaterinburg. There are quite a few countries, about ten. As for the junior championship under the auspices of World Aquatics, there will be such a championship in the Philippines, but no one has invited us there.

I want 100% of international tournaments so that the team can feel the taste of victories and be able to compete with the strongest. We also do not stand still, last year we created the Eurasian Countries Cup in diving. Then we held it in Saransk, 4 countries participated: Russia, Uzbekistan, Armenia and Belarus. This year we organized these competitions in Saratov. When we organized this cup, we signed an agreement on the establishment of the Union of Friendship and Mutual Assistance of Eurasian Countries in Diving. It is not a separate association. We agreed to be friends and organize competitions. Now Russia is the president of this union. We have undertaken to hold such a cup on the territory of our country at our own expense. What interests us? First, the prize money is good enough for our sport. This year already 9 countries have participated. We are negotiating with China on this. The average level of their training is decent,” Druzhinin said on the Loud show on .