110m hurdles world champion Sergei Shubenkov says whether the athletes themselves can pay the debt of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) to World Athletics.
Russian athletes, due to the suspension of the VFLA since 2015, can only participate in international competitions in neutral status. In March, World Athletics announced that the Russians had been denied the right to participate in tournaments under the organization’s auspices due to the situation in Ukraine.
– Certain contradictions do exist here, but it must be understood that before the Athletes’ Commission was a fairly formal entity. Anzhelika Sidorova, Masha Lasitskene and I somehow revived her, and Sergey Litvinov helped us in this, but then we had to fight first with one chairman of ARAF, and then with another. Now the commission has been convened again, but not to go to war. We did it mostly for us personally, to keep performing and winning. The common interest was just that, on the basis of which we came together.
$10 million? Cool. I wanted to say now that we would have picked up a million, but no. Wouldn’t scratch. Now I’m going through it all in my head – it’s been a tough year. True, the thought immediately arises: is it better now, or what? – quotes the words of Shubenkov RT.
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