Rodnina responded to Tarasova, who said that she did not feel the work of athletes in the State Duma

Three-time Olympic champion and State Duma deputy Irina Rodnina in a conversation with a correspondent, she said that her work could not be guided by the feelings of the honored figure skating coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova .

Earlier, Tarasova told Sport24 that she does not feel the work of athletes in the State Duma of the Russian Federation and they need to ask them questions about why this is not felt.

Rodnina has been a State Duma deputy since 2007. She currently serves as Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs.

“I don’t know what she meant.” You can’t count on your feelings. Does she even know what the work of athletes is in the State Duma? Everyone who came here from the sports world works in different commissions. So what exactly does this mean?

— Maybe he doesn’t see the results of his work.

— What result of the work does she expect? I don’t know. Our main result is the country’s budget. It is accepted every year. These are also bills, laws or amendments to laws that [депутаты] improve in all directions. These are business, legal protection, education, medicine. Exactly what she means is unclear. Sport? I am not part of the sports committee. I work on the Foreign Relations Committee. Fetisov and Valuev are part of our environmental committee. What does she mean exactly? It’s blind. In general, her sense of smell has not become very good, because she cannot smell it,” Rodnina told .

The State Duma Committee for Physical Culture and Sports includes Dmitry Svishchev, Boris Ivanyuzhenkov, Dmitry Pirog, Sergei Burlakov, Amir Khamitov, Anton Shipulin, Rima Batalova, Rustam Kalimullin, Boris Paikin, Evgeniy Revenko, Roman Teryushkov and Vladislav Tretyak.