“Get your medals, be proud.” Coach Danchenko – about the Olympic Games without Russian synchronized swimmers

Coach of the Russian synchronized swimming team Tatiana Danchenko in an interview with , she said that the value of the Olympic awards without the participation of the Russian team in the tournament would be much lower.

Russian synchronized swimmers, according to the recommendations of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), will not be able to participate in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

— How do you deal with motivation issues?

— From the postponement of the Olympics and the Covid story, when there was a lot of stress, I got used to dealing with it. When the Games were postponed, my nervous and hormonal systems were under attack. The peak was Tokyo, where you had to spit into test tubes every day, they played the wrong music… It was a complete nervous breakdown.

Until mid-2022, I believed that we would be at the Paris Olympics, but when the information about neutral athletes came out, when the duo became a team event, when they said that if we go, then without symbols… in such conditions, I said to myself: “Why should I go there? If World Aquatics said now that I had to go, I wouldn’t go. Without flag or anthem? Participate in the competition, get your medals, be proud to have become Olympic champion without us. This victory is worthless, I think.

Now we don’t think about it anymore. The girls are great, they do quality work every day. We try to train in such a way that we are ready to tear apart any opponent at any time,” Danchenko told .

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