The Russian coach’s comment caused a stir.
Marina Uljankina’s somommy year to the world. In the picture, he hugs European champion Seda Tuthaljan. AOP
Coach of the Russian scaffolding national team Marina Uljankina outraged by his comments.
Athletes and officials from Russia and Belarus have been excluded from the International Gymnastics Federation due to Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
Ukrainian sports magazine, According to the Tribunal Uljankina comments on the solution in harsh words on social media.
– We have to remind Watanabea – Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Uljankina wrote.
Uljankina refers in his comment to the President of the International Gymnastics Federation Morinari Watanabeenwhich is Japanese.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki, meanwhile, point to World War II and until 1945, when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japanese cities.
Uljankina’s comment has been published in a service called VK, formerly known as Vkontakte. This is Russia’s most popular social media, “Russia’s Facebook”.
Gymnovosti, a site focusing on scaffolding gymnastics, has posted a screenshot of Uljankina’s comment on her Twitter account.
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Among other things, Uljankina coaches the world champion Maria Pasekaa as well as being crowned European Champions This is Tuthaljania mixed Uljana Perebinosova.
Furious reaction
On social media services on Twitter and Reddit, friends of the sport have been shocked by Uljankina’s comment.
Some interpret the statement of the Russian coach as a threat.
– Is this person threatening a nuclear war? one commenter asks.
– Good God, the other is reacting.
– Oh shit, this is not acceptable, the third commentator is horrified.
Some, in turn, interpret Ulyaninka as referring to dual morality.
– He means that the United States committed war crimes against Japan with atomic bombs, but they were not excluded from the sport. As a Japanese, Watabe should remember this, and not be against Russia, one inches.
Japan also has its own dispute with Russia, to which Uljankina’s message may relate.
The Japanese government commented According to Bloomberg last week the Kuril Islands in the north of the country belong to Japan instead of Russia.
The Soviet Union conquered the islands from Japan in 1945, which Japan still considers an illegal occupation. Japan believes the region has always belonged to it.
Officially, the islands are the territory of Russia.
The International Gymnastics Association has not commented on the Finn update in Uljakina.