Athletistic / Others. Olympic speed skating champion and now a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Svetlana Zhurova spoke about the words of the famous commentator and journalist Dmitry Guberniev. Earlier, Guberniev called Russia an unsportsmanlike country.

According to the presenter, in Russia “few people are interested in sports.” Zhurova disagreed with Guberniev.

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“I will not call us unsportsmanlike. We love sports and pay a lot of attention to them. But, probably, he meant, and by the way, I partly agree here that the Americans have built their sports system in such a way that their internal competitions, for example in swimming, are more interesting for them than the World Championships,” Zhurova said, according to Lenta.ru.



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