The President of the Russian Diving Federation, Stanislav Druzhinin, in a conversation with a correspondent of the website, commented on the TV channel’s provocative video for the Russian Diving Championship in Penza.
The promo video of the tournament, produced by , shows a dialogue in a café between a Frenchman, a Hungarian and a Russian. The Frenchman praises the organization of diving in his country, where the competition takes place against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower. The Hungarian praises Budapest’s swimming pool, which he says is the best in Europe. After that, the Russian said that in Penza it would be ‘good if no one gets hurt’, and also that the tournament ‘probably won’t be watched by anyone, but it will be fun’.
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We understand that the diving audience is not as wide as we would like, and we agree that we have to go beyond that if we want to attract attention. A bit of self-mockery, a provocation, we talked about all this at length with the professionals at . We trusted and decided to try our luck. In fact, not in vain.
Our championship is broadcast on the federal television channel all week, super broadcast, live broadcasts, news with special effects. In this way, we highlight the beauty of our sport and are grateful to for helping to do a great thing,” said Druzhinin.
Later, released the full version of the promotional video, in which a Russian tells a Frenchman and a Hungarian that his country can organize competitions in any sport. Russia cited as examples the home world championships in hockey, water sports, beach soccer, athletics, football and the Confederations Cup
The competitions take place in Penza from 11 to 16 July.
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Source : MatchTV
