“You did the right thing, you don’t need to talk from there.” Gadzhiev – about renaming the Makhachkala stadium, which was named after Isinbayeva

Chairman of Makhachkala “Dynamo” Gadzhi Gadzhiev in an interview with a correspondent, he said he supported the decision to return the old name to Trud Stadium in Makhachkala, which was previously named after a two-time Olympic athletics champion Elena Isinbayeva .

Earlier on Tuesday, Dagestan’s Deputy Sports Minister Budun Budunov told that the Makhachkala athletic stadium, which was named after Isinbayeva, had been renamed. The stadium is now called Trud.

– They did well to restore the old name to the Trud stadium. Where is Isinbayeva located? In Spain? There is no need to talk from there. Shouldn’t we talk about it? how can we live. Yes, and there is no need to be distracted by our army, in which she served, Gadzhiev told .

Earlier, two-time 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 of major of “nominal”. She also said that she “has never been a State Duma deputy or a member of any party.”

Isinbayeva won gold at the 2004 and 2008 Games in the pole vault, she is also a bronze medalist at the 2012 Olympics and a multiple world champion.