Down-the-line.com/Hockey. Three-time Olympic figure skating champion Irina Rodnina commented on the scandal with Russian national hockey team goalkeeper Ivan Fedotov. On July 1, the athlete was arrested in St. Petersburg. He is accused of evading military service. It was reported that the athlete was sent to the Murmansk region, and then sent to a military unit in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.

“We have had many such cases in the history of sports. Take, for example, the situation with Fetisov, who did not escape anywhere, but allowed himself to sign a contract with the NHL.

The Kremlin commented on the scandal with the guard Fedotov, who was sent to a military unit

I think Fedotov has about the same situation. Only Fetisov was an officer at that time. Moreover, at 25, playing for CSKA, couldn’t he do his military service?

You have to think and care about yourself. Being a CSKA player, not going through a sports company, what is it? Hope his Russian laws don’t apply?

Of course, this is a pity for an athlete, because not training for a year is a difficult situation.

Moreover, if he already had a contract with the NHL in his hands, we were taught it from childhood: the soldier who does not dream of becoming a general is bad.

Naturally, every athlete dreams of first place and the best team. The upward striving determines so many of our actions”, quotes Rodnina “Gazeta.ru”.