Olympic diving champion Ilya Zakharov said that if he is elected a deputy of the Saratov Regional Duma, he plans to focus not only on sports projects.
The 31-year-old announced his intention to start a political career in July.
– Are you talking about sports projects? Not only. Sport will of course remain one of the priorities. I travel extensively across the country and see exactly what is missing in our city and region. In my understanding, it is very important that a person who decides to enter politics clearly knows why he is taking this step. After all, someone does it, simply succumbing to the persuasion of others, and in this option the error of choice was inherent in the beginning.
It is important for me because my parents and my family live here. Therefore, I do not think that the range of my interests should be limited exclusively to sports matters. The main thing is that people believe me, as they believed the athlete Zakharov, – said Zakharov RT.
Zakharov at the 2012 Olympics in London won gold in individual diving on the 3-meter springboard and silver in synchronized diving on the 3-meter springboard in duet with Evgeny Kuznetsov. He also won the World and European Championships. In February this year, Zakharov announced his retirement.
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