Double Olympic champion in biathlon Dmitry Vasiliev in an interview with a correspondent, he expressed the opinion that biathlete Lydia Zhurauskaite would regret her decision to change Russian citizenship to Lithuanian.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin, by his decree, granted the 23-year-old biathlete’s request to withdraw Russian citizenship.
– I’m absolutely calm. In this case, no one should be forced to be a citizen of a particular country. If she has decided that she is closer to Lithuania than to Russia, that is her choice. I think after a while she will regret it. But it will be extremely difficult for him to recover Russian citizenship.
Political processes are moving so fast, and the Baltic countries are not looking their best at the moment. From there, on the contrary, all the young people leave to work and generally do not really want to live in their Baltic countries. I think it’s an attempt to avoid additional competition from the Russian team, because it’s not so easy to get into our team, and in the Lithuanian team she can be among the leaders. I want to believe that she is guided by these considerations.
Didn’t his coach talk about the best conditions for training in Murmansk? I don’t know how weird it is to hear. As far as I know, luxurious shooting ranges and stadiums were built in Murmansk in the “Valley of Comfort”, and this did not happen for a long time, and finally all the conditions were created there. Maybe I don’t know something, I haven’t been there for a long time – 6-7 years. But those who were there recently praise the biathlon conditions, Vasilyev told .
Source : MatchTV
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