The Russian Fencing Federation (FFR) has no right to interfere in the family relations of athletes Konstantin Lokhanov and Sofia Pozdnyakova declared to “” the president of the FFR Ilgar Mammadov.
Earlier, learned that the four-time junior world champion, a member of the Russian fencing team Lokhanov, has been in the United States for several months and has no plans to return. Lokhanov’s wife, two-time Olympic champion Pozdnyakova, decided to file for divorce. The athlete’s father and President of the Russian Olympic Committee Stanislav Pozdnyakov confirmed this information.
– The Russian Fencing Federation is a public organization and in no case should enter into family relations that occur not only between Lokhanov and Pozdnyakova, but also between other married or divorced athletes. For some reason nobody writes about other people, and during the pandemic we had a lot of divorces: athletes were closed and stayed on the base for a long time. As a result, many couples broke up. It’s a tragedy.
We are all athletes – there are no others. Only for some reason a couple received increased attention just because of their surnames. For example, to other more prominent athletes in other types of weapons, I am now talking about Lokhanov, Sofia is an Olympic champion, she is awesome, no attention at all. Family relations are life, we have no right to interfere with it,” Mammadov said.
Source : MatchTV
