Rodnina spoke about Putin's instructions
Three-time Olympic champion Irina Rodnina refuted the Kremlin's propaganda about sports being out of politics. In particular, she revealed that the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKK) received funding after dictator Vladimir Putin ordered the state corporation Rostelecom to take over the expenses.
Rodnina proudly announced this in a comment to the propaganda news agency RIA "Novosti", confirming that the Kremlin uses sports as propaganda. According to the winner of the Sapporo-72, Innsbruck-76 and Lake Placid-80 Games, Putin reprimanded the head of Rostelecom and put him in charge of figure skating.
"I'll tell you a story. A long time ago, Sasha Gorshkov (former FFKK president - ed.) approached Vladimir Putin at a sports council. He said, 'We have trouble with figure skating! There is no money, there is nothing." After that, the head of Rostelecom was summoned with a gesture of Putin's finger: He was told: "That's it, you are now in charge of figure skating," Rodnina said.
Earlier, Olympic champion in artistic gymnastics Artur Dalaloyan was outraged by the ban on Russian athletes from competing under the national flag, saying there were no grounds for it.
As OBOZREVATEL reported, former world heavyweight champion Nikolai Valuev called for ban on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Russia.
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