Athletistic / Rowing. Russian kayaker Svetlana Chernigovskaya spoke about the conditions set by the All-Russian Kayak and Canoe Federation (VFGBK) for athletes to participate in the World Championships.

The World Championship was held in Samarkand (Uzbekistan). Chernigovskaya, in a pair with Anastasia Dolgova, won the two-person kayak competition over a distance of 200 meters.

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“I would call what was happening a mockery. My nerves gave way, everything went through tears, my hands gave up, I didn’t want to fight anymore. You understand that it is impossible to fight with them, with the leadership of our federation. Everything depends only on them.

Basically, they’ll tell you: walk naked in the canal, and then we’ll send you to the World Cup. And that’s basically it. You don’t want to go, you think – I won’t do that! And then it turns out that there’s no other option.

We were given a condition: those who participate in the AAA CUP tournament will be deprived of paying prize money at the Goodwill Cup, and the question of participation in the World Championship will also arise. The competition is harmless, yes, we decided to participate in it – what’s wrong? We are self-training, preparing at our own expense and at the expense of the regions. The conditions were set only after we won the Russian championship. The tournament is an opportunity to try ourselves before the World Cup, an experiment. And thus we violated some recommendations of the federation, and therefore the regulations on the discipline of athletes, which stipulate that we must comply with the chain of command and all the requirements and instructions of the WFGBK. I don’t know how long ago this clause was introduced, but I don’t remember it being applied before, “said Chernigov, quoted by Sport-Express.



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