Double Russian champion and world vice-champion in high jump Danil Lysenko said that at present the situation regarding the admission of Russians to the international arena seems hopeless.
Lysenko won the New Heights tournament in Moscow on Saturday with a score of 2.31 meters. The jumper failed to reach a height of 2.34.
– 2.34 – one centimeter more than the World Championship standard. Did you keep that in mind?
– No, I didn’t. I just wanted to update the Russian season leader.
— Is there any hope that you will one day return to the world stage?
– The current situation [выглядит] desperately. But we are convinced that options will always appear. There are friendly countries that will be happy to see us, and we will be happy to see them. Next year there will be more construction starts, more people will come to us. I hope that during my career I will reach international competitions at a different level, “the correspondent reports, reporting Lysenko’s words.
In November 2015, ARAF was temporarily deprived of its membership in World Athletics due to an anti-doping rule violation, as a result of which Russian athletes participated in international competitions with neutral status. Later, the international organization published a number of criteria according to which ARAF can be reinstated as a member of World Athletics.
In March 2022, the World Athletics Council banned Russian and Belarusian athletes from participating in the World, European and Diamond League Championships, even in neutral status, due to the situation in Ukraine.
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