Former Russian track and field athlete and flag bearer of the Cyprus team at the opening of the Olympics in Paris Svetlana Kulichenko blew up the Internet. The media discovered an OnlyFans account with photos and videos of a naked athlete. Who she is and what happened next — in the material Sport.
From Odintsovo to the USA
She gained wide fame in the spring of 2021 after changing her sports citizenship. Kulichenko became a citizen of Cyprus back in 2019, and two years later she linked her professional future with this country. Even the mandatory sports quarantine did not scare her.
A native of Odintsovo near Moscow completed all the necessary documents and left Russia. But not to Cyprus, but to the United States, where she studied and trained at the University of Georgia. Interestingly, Lauren Seagrave, Daria Klishina's former coach, advised her.
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«In fact, many young Russian track and field athletes, if they had the opportunity, would make a similar decision,» Kulichenko said in an interview with Sport-Express. «Everyone is talking about it. It's just that for certain reasons, I got a second citizenship a few years ago. So my manager suggested changing my sports citizenship. Nothing is moving for the better in Russia. At the time of our conversation, they even stopped giving neutral statuses.»
In 2023, she won the Cyprus Championship in pole vault, and then brought the country its first ever gold at the European Youth Championships. Her achievements prompted the sports authorities of Cyprus to choose her as the flag bearer. But now things may not turn out well for the former Russian.
The Naked Truth?
The real «fame» came to the 21-year-old athlete shortly before the start of the Olympic Games in Paris. Screenshots from the adult website page, published by the Greek portal eReportaz, leave no doubt that it is Kulichenko in the candid photos and videos.
The athlete was even asked to close her account, but she refused. And here is where there is some confusion. The media reports that Kulichenko did not want to delete the page. At the same time, journalists further claim that the athlete assures through lawyers that all these pornographic materials are generated by artificial intelligence. How so?
The incident has stirred up the Cypriot public.
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«The Olympic Committee must take an official position on the issue of one of the two athletes it has appointed as flag bearers for the Cypriot team at the upcoming Olympic Games,» urged lawyer and son of the former Prosecutor General of Cyprus Christos Triantafyllidis. «I mean a naturalized Cypriot on her father's side. A Russian athlete, against whom certain non-sports cases have been uncovered.»
The media are also asking the question: why, if the athlete herself is not in the video, did she not take any action to remove the materials? Why didn't she contact the Cypriot police? There are more questions than answers. In the meantime, the OnlyFans audience may be replenished with a large number of athletics fans.
Kulichenko herself later spoke out in the comments to one of the posts on social networks. When asked how to find her account on «Onlik», she replies: «It doesn't exist. It's a fake, spread without verified information.»
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