Olympic cross-country skiing champion Veronique Stepanova reacted to the news that the world swimming record holder Evgeny Chikunov will be officially announced at the Russian competitions as a double champion of the 2024 Olympic Games.
For the first time, 19-year-old Chikunova was announced in this way at the Baltic Sea Cup.
“I followed the noise that was made around Zhenya Chikunova and I can not get rid of the feeling that many of our veterans of the pen and microphone are stuck in the last century. They simply cannot understand that Olympic gold is not everything in the life of an athlete and a person.
By the way, in ancient Greece there were no “neutral athletes” – the hometown, the polis, equipped and sent them. If politics demanded it, the citizen spoke. No, I stayed at home. How about returning to such a “past century”? — Stepanova wrote on the Telegram channel .
Chikunova in the final of the Russian Cup showed a better result than those with which Tatyana Smith (South Africa) and Kate Douglass (USA) won the 100 and 200 meters breaststroke respectively at the Olympic Games. The Russian woman will receive two million rubles for each result.
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