Honored coach of Russia in athletics Olga Pavlova on the air of the program “There is a theme!” on said the trend of not shaking hands in sport is having a devastating effect on tournaments and on the athletes themselves.
Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk refused to shake hands with a Belarusian Arina Sobolenko after the defeat at Roland-Garros (3:6, 2:6). This did not please the public, who began to boo the Ukrainian.
“This handshakeless trend is very ugly and scary for the sport. It’s the destruction of tournaments and the athletes themselves. It’s on the level of morality and morality. Federations need to activate because the visibility of the tournaments will be reduced to nothing.
There are sports in which a non-handshake is tantamount to sanctions: hockey, football.
I have inside information. There are directives: each official, athlete, going abroad, receives a paper on how he should behave towards Russians. This is 100% information.
All Ukrainian athletes and officials can be divided into two types. The first are those who are afraid. Remember how they stalked Yaroslav Maguchy, how they wrote to our Marina Golyadkina, a native of Donbass, unpleasant things on social networks. How they mocked state symbols when Vanya Kulyak came to the defense of the Russian Federation.
But there are Ukrainians who have exceeded all standards of morality. Sports lawyers, and not just sports lawyers, should take this seriously. There are ethics committees. In the Russian Federation there is a team of Artem Patsev, for example, let her watch. If you do nothing, nothing will happen. You can’t wait and accept no matter what. There are legal canons we can win,” Pavlova said on .
Source : MatchTV
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