MOSCOW, April 5, Svetlana Bonopartova. Honored Coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova stated that the President of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Stanislav Pozdnyakov does not have the right to call those tennis players who want to go to the Olympics in a neutral status as foreign agents.
ROC President Stanislav Pozdnyakov said that he supports Irina Viner’s position on the participation of Russian athletes in the Olympics in Paris, but does not agree with her definition of “a team of homeless people,” and in relation to tennis players who have expressed a desire to perform at the Games, according to him, it is more correct use the wording “team of foreign agents”.
“”A big man in a high position and says such things. If people travel under such conditions, they are already in a difficult situation. Why do they need to add from their own people, from the leaders of the sport? They are not involved in the fact that their suspended, while they have a short sports life. He does not understand the psychology of athletes. What right do we have to condemn them? Who gave such a right to Pozdnyakov? No one, although he has been a big boss for some time,” Tarasova said.
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