Synchronized swimmer Chigiryova said she was harassed ahead of the Olympics

Double Olympic champion in synchronized swimming Vlad Chigireva said that before the Tokyo Games, she had been the victim of harassment.

Chigireva said it lasted about two years.

– Many men write, obsessively commenting on all posts. The only thing I know now is that you don’t have to pay attention to it. If there is a reaction from you, it will only warm them up.

There was a time – it’s not a terrible thing that they were waiting for me with a knife somewhere, but, after learning my phone number, they wrote me poetry, and then they started coming to competitions without requiring an appointment. Then they started waiting in the parking lot, and I even talked to this man, almost offered to take her – I’m a strange woman, don’t forget that. Then everything turned into the fact that they found out where I live, they came to our base, and it seems that nothing bad is happening, but somehow it’s scary – suddenly (a person) will cross this barrier.

Then, we were even welcomed by the competition at the airport, and the height was that after Tokyo, at the Oulan-Oude training camp, where there was no access for us, this young man came with flowers to the hotel, and the first The person he met was Tatiana Nikolaevna Pokrovskaya, who said kind words and told me what awaited me.

He found out where we are, according to the stories, mine, Alla (Shishkina), and I found out this (about her arrival) after the fact in the dining room, the coach yelled at me that I brought my man, and while everyone is afraid of being infected (coronavirus), I am having fun and not exercising. All this brought me to a nervous breakdown. Understood – it’s the straw that broke the camel’s back, and I don’t need it.

There were messages every day before the Games. The last was a warm message on the day of our free routine at the Olympics. He said “that’s it, I’m not writing anymore”, I haven’t seen any more messages from this person.

I’m grateful to this person because it didn’t turn into some kind of obsession, but there are other stories where people do terrible things,” Chigireva said in an interview with YouTube channel Peretrem.