Navka urged not to consider athletes who changed their citizenship as traitors

The Olympic champion in ice dancing noted that each athlete who changed citizenship has his own personal story,which must be considered separately from all Read us in News News

Athletes who have changed citizenship cannot be called traitors. This was announced to RBC Sport by the 2006 Olympic champion in ice dancing Tatyana Navka.

“As for athletes changing their citizenship, I can say that you should not react so sharply to their actions and row everyone with the same brush. it is not worth calling everyone indiscriminately traitors. Everyone has their own life, their own history and their own reasons. Everyone has the right to their choice, ”Navka said.

Zhurova advocated giving Fourcade Russian citizenship Biathlon

Earlier, Tatyana Tarasova admitted that Russian skaters could massively begin to change citizenship if the International Skating Union (ISU) keeps the suspension of Russian athletes from international competitions for a long time.

On March 1, ISU suspended Russian and Belarusian athletes from competitions under its auspices due to events in Ukraine. Russian athletes have already missed the World Championship, which took place at the end of March in Montpellier.

Instead of the world championship, Russian figure skaters competed at the Channel One Cup in Saransk. Following the tournament, Olympic champion Anna Shcherbakova said she might consider ending her career due to the uncertainty surrounding Russian athletes' participation in future competitions. However, last week the 18-year-old figure skater decided to continue skating.