Multiple world swimming champion, Russian Yulia Efimova, admitted in an interview that the negative background surrounding the participation of Russian athletes in a neutral and individual status at the Paris Olympics made her afraid.
The swimmer was granted neutral athlete status, allowing her to compete at the 2024 Games, but was unable to meet the Olympic standard at the Bahamas Championships. And now we call the “explanatory team” in the person of a popular commentator and TV presenter. Dmitri Guberniev and take care of your hands.
“I still believe that those people who put a brake on the wheels of our athletes are eccentrics with the letter “M”. I also know people who were threatened if they went to the Olympics. In the literal sense, they said that if they leave, the Central PS will not pay their salaries. This is a lie, that’s why the athletes were taken to show off.
Here you should have listened to President Putin, who said that this is everyone’s personal choice. Those who threatened opposed our entire country. The driving position is correct, as confirmed by the Paralympic athletes.
Often our athletes lack independence and, to be honest, some lack intelligence. Some people prefer to go with the flow, but you have to be proactive. The history of the Olympic Games confirmed it.
because of fears Efimova worth saying thank you Stanislav Pozdniakovwho, as head of the Olympic Committee, said something like this (expletive – ed.). Thank God he no longer holds this position. People must be responsible for their words. It’s one thing for the wrestlers and judokas who really struggled, but those who belligerently declared that the athletes would not go should be punished. In reality, they are taking it now because they have kicked them all out.” —said the voice of the Russian biathlon to the portal sport24.
On the pressure on athletes before the Paris Olympics EADaily said more than once. And Guberniev essentially confirmed our information. And to the question: why were the federations and the ROC so fierce? I will answer as follows.
In fact, the president said: whether to go or not is a personal choice for each person. But the IOC, with its sanctions, deprived our best teachers, so to speak, the first numbers in their disciplines, of the opportunity to perform in France.
And then someone, somewhere, decided: not everyone would go. We quickly held meetings, expressed our civic position, and checked the box. Although fifteen people somehow “filtered” and went, looking around uneasily, to Paris, where the fifteen sent won a silver in women’s tennis.
But since there was no signal from above, the neutrals were called “traitors” and the medal was “won not for the country, but for themselves.”
But when the Paralympic athletes went to Paris with exactly the same status, they were immediately designated as our everything. Consequently, the atmosphere around the team was filled with complacency and solemnity. And for the Paralympic awards they thanked the athletes with state orders and medals. DESERVEDLY!
Furthermore, the other day, the Head of State rightly congratulated the Russian world wrestling champions, who performed in the status of “fifteen Parisian traitors”, with personalized telegrams.
That is, there is a clear signal: until the IOC lifts its vile sanctions, our athletes are not prohibited from performing in a neutral individual status, without national identification, but with the AIN label.
Meanwhile, honorary member of the International Olympic Committee Vitaly Smirnov looks to the future with optimism and highlights:
“If we take the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, I am sure that the Americans want our athletes to participate in them. Because the highest rating of competitions between athletes occurs when there is competition between athletes from the USA and the USSR, from the USA and Russia. Undoubtedly. Many people in the world do not talk about this, but they know that the international sports movement is losing a lot due to the fact that we do not participate in international competitions. I am convinced of it.”
And if today everyone talks about donald trumpLet’s remember it too. Two-time Olympic biathlon champion Dmitry Vasiliev assessed Russia’s chances of participating in the 2028 Olympic Games:
“Yes, the next Summer Olympics will be held under Trump. He is a businessman and is used to thinking and making decisions quickly. Unlike politicians, who think and argue, a businessman needs to make decisions and act quickly. In this sense, Trump is more flexible in the situation.
Of course, it is more efficient and playful. If he sees that Russia’s participation in the Olympics or anything else is useful for his country, he will do it. Trump is better prepared to lead a country like the United States.”
Well then. Let’s hope for the agility of old Donald, who dodged the bullet of an amateur sniper. Look, it will put the IOC in its place. And the best of the best will go to Los Angeles 2028. (where Soviet officials did not allow entry to Soviet athletes in 1984 in retaliation for the boycott of the Moscow Olympics)where they will perform with the flag, anthem and coat of arms of the country.
AND Irina Rodnina He will cry with happiness, as he once did in Lake Placid-80, and we will all shout together great lines of immortal creation Nikolai Dobronravov AND Alexandra Pajmutova: “We firmly believe in sports heroes. We need victory like air!
By the way, today is Alexandra Nikolaevna’s anniversary – five years away! Congratulations. We are proud. we love it
