Deputy Sports Minister of Dagestan Budun Budunov in a conversation with said that the citizens of the republic will choose a new name for the Makhachkala athletic stadium, which now bears the name Elena Isinbayeva .
Earlier, the head of the Republic of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, asked in social networks to rename the athletic stadium in Makhachkala, named after Isinbayeva. He entrusted this work to the Ministry of Sports of Dagestan and the mayor of the city.
— The people themselves will choose the name of the stadium. The Ministry of Sports of Dagestan will carry out the instructions of the leader. We are already working on options to achieve this. It has to look right so that it reaches all the inhabitants. We haven’t thought about name options yet,” Budunov told .
Earlier, Olympic champion Isinbayeva announced that she would return to work with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in September, and also noted that she had never been in the Russian armed forces and called her rank a major of “nominal”. She also said that she “has never been a deputy of the State Duma or a member of any party.”
Isinbayeva is a two-time Olympic pole vault champion (she won gold at the Games in 2004 and 2008), bronze medalist at the 2012 Olympics, multiple world champion and holder of 28 world records.
Source : MatchTV
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