Presenter and commentator at Dmitry Guberniev said that the latest results in women’s swimming at the Paris Olympics show that the Russian woman is in vain Evgenia Chikunova did not attempt to qualify for the Games and obtain neutral status.
The women’s 200m breaststroke at the Paris Olympics ended on Thursday. American swimmer Kate Douglass took first place with a score of 2:19.24. At the Russian Swimming Cup in Yekaterinburg, Evgenia Chikunova posted a result of 2.18.98. Thus, Chikunova will receive an additional two million rubles for setting a better time than the winner of the Olympic Games. Previously, Chikunova earned two million rubles for her time in the 100m breaststroke.
– Well, this shows once again that Zhenya did not try in vain to qualify for the Olympics and get a status. This is terribly offensive, at least to me. A very famous member of the national swimming team wrote to me just now that swimmers really regret that they did not participate in the selection for the Olympics. This is the opinion of many, many athletes. And Chikunova herself indirectly said that she wanted to compete, since an athlete must compete. This is a real parade of missed opportunities.
Once again, I want to say that people will do anything to go there. It didn’t work for taekwondo athletes, wrestlers and judokas refused, but they did everything to go there. Unlike swimmers, who did nothing because they wanted to listen to someone. Well, now the Russian tradition: let’s bite each other’s elbows. It would undoubtedly be the Olympics for Chikunova, not only in the 200 meters, but perhaps also in the 100 meters. But, alas, I do not accept the subjunctive mood, neither in life nor in sports. Unfortunately, our swimmers flew over these Olympics like plywood over Paris.
— Chikunova still has two million, but can’t you fill the hole in your heart with money?
“People wrote to me that no amount of money can be compared with the opportunity to fight for an Olympic medal,” Guberniev told .
The games in the French capital will end on August 11.
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