Athletistic/ Others. On Monday, September 12, Sergei Burlakov, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Physical Culture and Sports, responded to reports that in 2022 many Russian athletes have expressed a desire to change sports citizenship .
“I don’t see the point of blaming athletes, washing their bones, calling them traitors,” the official stressed.
– Note that we Russians, unlike Europeans, rarely get into scandals related to the persecution of athletes. It would be meanness on our part to resort to harassment at such a difficult time for our country,” Burlakov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.
Earlier it became known that biathlete Daria Virolainen plans to start competing for Finland in the near future.
Source: Sport
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