Former Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko believes Russia’s neutral Paralympians were warmly welcomed at the 2024 Games in Paris.
“Russia needs to return to world sport and work calmly. The Paralympic Games are taking place now and all the fears of our colleagues who are introducing prohibitive measures have not come true. Our athletes are welcomed if there is no politicization around it.
The Champions League draw has already taken place. Why shouldn’t our clubs take part? You can separate clubs from some countries if you’re afraid of something. It’s even possible to play matches on neutral ground. But I don’t understand why our boys shouldn’t play.” – asks the legendary official, whose achievements in the field of English learning were appreciated by all progressive humanity.
As for our footballers, they do not play in official international tournaments due to a sanction from UEFA and FIFA.
In this context, yesterday’s interview with the national team coach is very interesting. valeria karpina “Championship” portal. Here you go, enjoy.
– Is there any fear that after returning to the world stage, the Russian national team will not be able to compete after matches with the likes of Thailand and Vietnam?
– Were we competitive before this? Yes? Have you always played in European and World Championships? Let’s see. Nobody has an answer to this question.
We played against the Serbian national team, obviously they had a suspension. We played against the Cameroon national team. Obviously they are friendly matches, but we were competitive there.
– What if they don’t bring us back for another 10 years? Aren’t you afraid?
-I’m very scared.
-You didn’t think about what to do then?
-I could die in 10 years…
Valery Georgievich, live long and happily. Moreover, today, September 5, our national team will fight against the Vietnamese (20:00 Moscow time), and on September 7 against the Thais.
The LPBank Cup friendly tournament will feature no-holds-barred fights with a set prize pool: the winner will receive $10,000, the second and third places will receive $7,000 and $5,000 respectively.
And later, if everything goes well, the Russians will play at home against the Syrians. But now the main thing is to beat the Vietnamese, where the goalkeeper shines. Lev Shonovich Dang, Born and raised in Moscow.
Well, now we are back to the Paralympic Games in Paris. Vitaly Leontievich happily reported that “our athletes are welcomed if there is no politicisation around it.”
This was how the tournament was politicized before the tournament, depriving Russian envoys of their national ID, banning the state anthem, coat of arms and flag. Which did not stop neutral Paralympic athletes. (ANP) winning 13 gold, 17 silver and 18 bronze medals this morning.
For his part, the Minister of Sports Mikhail Degtyarev He said that Russia, even in a similar situation, remains a member of the Olympic movement, with no intention of isolating itself:
“I would like to draw your attention to this as a sign that we were and remain members of the Olympic movement and share all the values of the Olympic Charter. We have started the process of uniting the gymnastics federations on the basis of artistic gymnastics.
You know that the International Gymnastics Federation combines rhythmic and artistic gymnastics, trampolining and acrobatics. We had different organizations in Russia and we started the process of unification. This is a sign that we are aligning our organizational structure with the international one.
Russia will not isolate itself. With all this, we have preserved our sporting sovereignty, and we will continue to do so, but being a member of a great sporting family.”
It turns out that no matter how much you honk the horn Thomas Bach and all the evil spirits from your filthy office, we do not give up and bring our organizational structure to the level of brilliant international heights.
But I do not understand how sporting sovereignty can be preserved by covering the proud inscription RUSSIA with black ribbon on the orders and replacing the great anthem with a piece from Tchaikovsky’s concerto.
However, now at the award ceremonies music from the IOC labukhs is heard, but they will not expect isolation from us!
By the way, yesterday, September 4th, EADaily published a very revealing quote from the Minister of Sports: “…But those who change their sporting citizenship raise questions for me personally, I’m sure this raises questions for most citizens of the country.”
The official was immediately responded to by a State Duma deputy and Olympic champion. Svetlana Zhurova:
“You cannot look at sports in a straightforward way. This is the human factor. There are subtleties and nuances. I cannot call anyone a traitor, but when an outstanding athlete leaves who, on the contrary, should now support the country and become an example for the younger generation, I have questions for that person.
When the first numbers, the outstanding athletes do this, it provokes a bigger reaction in me, that if the number ten of the team does it, he doesn’t receive anything here, but he is given the opportunity to act there. One will be called a traitor, but the other is difficult to call a traitor. Then he should just end the sport, but he doesn’t want to do that, so he goes where he has the conditions.
In 1936, when they began to kill the brilliant composer. Dmitri ShostakovichThe article “Confusion instead of music” appeared in Pravda. Therefore, the comments about the change of sports citizenship can only be called confusion. Because the minister is too politicized and the deputy is unexpectedly pragmatic. Here a concrete example is urgently needed, and I have it…
On August 31, the International Judo Federation (IJF) announced the change of sports citizenship of a Russian Makhmadbek MakhmadbekovFrom now on, the Irkutsk native will compete in prestigious tournaments not under the AIN (individual neutral athlete) label, but under the flag of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
“This decision was not easy, but my ambitions left me no other choice, I cannot sacrifice everything I have been through. It was the longest and hardest summer of my life. Emotionally difficult. But everything that does not kill us makes us stronger.
It was very difficult for me to leave the national team, I grew up in it, my path began at the age of 15 in the youth team and for 9 years I represented Russia on the international stage. I still love this country, I have all my close friends there, I am grateful to every coach of the national team and the Russian Judo Federation, they are all people with a capital P.
You can’t imagine how difficult it was to make a decision like that, because my whole life has been with these people, and this is my family, and, whatever it is, I think they understand me, maybe not everyone understands them. But if I wanted to achieve the results I strive for, I had to do it.” – said the four-time Grand Slam stage winner.
Now take care of your hands. Makhmadbekov was one of four Russian judokas allowed by the IOC to participate in the 2024 Games in Paris.
At the same time, neutral athletes from Russia received twelve licenses, but the team leaders did not receive any invitations. After which the Russian Judo Federation (FDR) reported that “He will not accept humiliating conditions and will not perform in Paris with the line-up proposed by IOC officials.”
Later, the IOC noted: Makhmadbekov accepted the invitation to perform at the Olympics, but FDR sternly said: the athlete refused to participate in the Games.
As a result, neutral judokas did not compete at all in Paris. “Traitors” from other disciplines went to France to try to “win medals exclusively for themselves.”
We did not agree, but it turns out that one stubborn fighter remembered his old injury, and then they answered for another judoka who agreed – he refused.
Let me remind you in one line: the lists of neutral Paralympic athletes were also approved at the highest international specialized level and athletes born in Crimea were excluded.
But his comrades who passed the “test sieve” flew to Paris, where they performed excellently. receive welcome telegrams from the Russian president for the gold medals.
Meanwhile, the president of the Russian Judo Federation Sergei Soloveichik commented on the athlete’s decision:
“My personal opinion is that Makhmadbek was in a hurry when he left to play for the UAE national team. It was probably an emotional decision, I think. In my opinion, no one in the world has the conditions that the athletes of the Russian Judo Federation and the national team have now, I think I will not be wrong in saying that.
Athletes bring results and gold medals to their country, they are heroes here. So it will be difficult to find a future here, well, maybe he will come to his senses. We have an excellent relationship with him, our opinion is that it was a premature step, but we are adults, everyone lives their own life. Whether this was the right decision remains to be seen in the future.“
As for the prospects, this is good. Because the people wait, wait and believe that the bells will ring again and we will enter through the open doors… of the luminous Olympic palaces. With our own flag, coat of arms and anthem. Because why are we worse than, for example, the athletes from Kosovo?
