Honored Coach of the USSR in Figure Skating Tatiana Tarasova believes that a law obliging athletes to pay compensation in the event of a change of nationality will not affect the decision of athletes to change country.
Earlier, the head of the State Duma’s Committee for Physical Culture and Sports Dmitry Svishchev told that the Duma is discussing the introduction of compensation when athletes change sports citizenship.
“We need to know how much they want in compensation. Could this affect the decision of athletes considering changing citizenship? Anyone who wants to change their citizenship will change. But we have to see how much it will cost. The athlete also played for this country, which brought him something. He played for many years, Tarasova said at the championship.
Against the background of the situation around Ukraine, some Russian athletes are changing their sports citizenship. These include cyclists Pavel Sivakov (France), Mikhail Yakovlev (Israel), swimmers Anastasia Kirpichnikova (France), Mark Nikolaev (Australia), short track skater Sofia Prosvirnova (Denmark), chess players Alina Kashlinskaya (Poland), Alexandra Kosteniuk (Switzerland). ), rowers Anna Prakaten (Uzbekistan), Nikolai Pimenov (Serbia), figure skaters Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin (Georgia).
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Source : MatchTV
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