Beijing 2022 Olympic champion in cross-country skiing Veronika Stepanova in her column on , she spoke about the opinion that initially formed of her in the West, noting that false assumptions were made in the foreign press about the change in sporting citizenship.
– At the beginning of March, there was a preliminary survey regarding my interest in changing my sports citizenship.
At that time there was an opinion that I was some kind of new type of Russian athlete. Specifically, it didn’t work, but they did. Western journalists do not have time to find out the real state of things, they build their “houses on the sand”, invent an alternative reality and live there themselves. If a girl smiles, willingly gives interviews and tries to speak English, it means that she clearly shares all relevant liberal values and dreams of nothing but moving to the West.
I was happy to disappoint all those who believed in it! First of all, I don’t share all the values, that’s an understatement, and since then I’ve spoken about it quite crudely. Second, I owe my career to dozens of people in my home country who now expect me to come back, win. Third, I was a little better than many athletes (at least in my sport) had the chance to try life and career abroad, ”wrote Stepanova.
Source : MatchTV
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