Athletistic/ Others. Gennady Gabrilyan, the coach of Olympic high jump champion Maria Lasitskene, said his parish will continue to prepare for the 2024 Olympics in Paris, despite the likelihood that Russian athletes will not be admitted to the Games.

“As long as we have the objective of continuing to work. We have drawn the contours of Paris and we are going there. If we constantly wonder if these Games will take place for us, they will not take place, then, in general, why live? ?

Currently, Russian athletes in most sports are not allowed to participate in international competitions.

In addition to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medal, Maria Lasitskene won gold in the high jump three times at the World Championships in Athletics (2015, 2017, 2019), twice won the World Indoor Championships in Athletics (2014, 2018), won the European Championship (2018) and the European Indoor Championships (2015, 2019), as well as in many other competitions.