Jelena Isinbayeva receives criticism again.
Jelena Isinbayeva has left Russia. PDO
Yelena Isinbayeva is again heavily criticized in Russia.
Now, the Olympic number one in biathlon shares his opinion about the activities of the pole vault Olympic champion Svetlana Ishmuratova.
Isinbayeva moved from Russia to Tenerife earlier this year. More water was thrown into the mill when the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Thomas Bach gave the pole vaulter and Shamilya Tarpishchevin continues in the IOC commission.
The reason was that the duo does not represent Russia in their work.
– We don’t know the whole situation. But Jelena made it clear that she does not support the special operation. She likes to live in other countries, Išmuratova criticized on Match TV referring to the war in Ukraine.
– He is a great athlete, but what an attitude towards the motherland… It is wrong. Apparently something happened in his upbringing as a child. He was not taught to love his homeland, the biathlete continued.
Išmuratova thinks Isinbayeva is rootless.
– What if the same thing happens in Spain as in the Middle East? Where is he going? To Monaco? There is no better place than the country where you were born.
Get rid of Russia
Svetlana Išmuratova shares criticism. PDO
Isinbayeva won two Olympic golds and three world championships in the pole vault. Išmuratova has five biathlon World Cup golds and two Olympic golds.
Isinbayeva is a major in the Russian army. In the summer, he claimed on social media that the title is only nominal.
The pole vaulter has distanced himself from Russia by, among other things, removing the president from his group picture Vladimir Putin with.
Ishmuratova also belongs to the Russian army.