Olympic cross-country ski champion Veronica Stepanova in her column on , she wrote that immediately after the 2022 Olympics in Europe, the concept of a major ski reality show was being developed with her participation as an antagonist.
At the Beijing Olympics, Stepanova won gold in the relay.
— The Russians were also needed before. Like the “bad guys”. Do you remember the movie “Rocky”? Ivan Drago as the protagonist’s rival. A battle with him is always better observed than with a simple John Smith. And they wanted to make me a modern version of “Ivan” – right after the 2022 Olympics, they were working on the concept of a big ski reality show. The money, the producers, the directors were Scandinavian – and I had no illusions about my role.
Then everything changed radically. In 2022, much more powerful “producers” came up with the idea of isolating and “punishing” Russia, in all areas.
This is certainly not an idea of sports leaders, and certainly not of the athletes themselves. Until the end of February of the same year, I was in Norway participating in the Junior World Championships – no one thought of “punishing and isolating” us. And they joined hands as always, no change. But after about a week, an order came from somewhere above – and suddenly “it became impossible” to run with the Russians. If this is not political interference in sports, then I don’t know what it can be called,” Stepanova wrote.
Russian and Belarusian athletes have been suspended from participating in competitions held under the auspices of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS).
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