On March 2, the International Skating Federation and the International Olympic Committee jointly announced that figure skating teams from Russia and Belarus would not be able to participate in the 2022 Figure Skating World Championships in Montpellier, France, on March 18. Subsequently, the International Skating Federation announced the big list of participants in the World Championships, and the players who won 5 medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics in the Russian Olympic Games all failed to enter the list.
Russian-Austrian figure skating teams: Vallieva, Trusova, Serbakova, ice dance duo Snikina/Kasarapov, pair skating Tarava/Morozov, Mishnah/Garimov will become medal favourites as long as they can participate in the World Championships, and even a large part of them are title favorites. It is worth mentioning that the Chinese figure skating team also has no one participating in the World Championships. (It is said that the Chinese team may make up the report but there is no specific news yet)
Former Russian Olympic figure skating champion Nafka is very dissatisfied with the INTERNATIONAL Skating Federation's approach, she said in an interview: "The children are innocent, our athletes are undoubtedly the [jewels] of the World Championships, without Russian athletes to participate in the World Championships, the champion will lose any value." ”
"I'm so sorry for everything that happened, all the athletes and kids are innocent, they have nothing to do with those guys, it's too much, I can't believe it can happen."
The 46-year-old Nafka helped the Russian-Austrian team win the ice dance championship at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, and won the Ice Dance World Championship twice in 2004 and 2005, as the predecessor of the Russian figure skating team, she also invited her to a celebration banquet for the Russian Olympic team, and she took photos with a number of NEWKO world champions.
Although Kpo did not win the medal, her popularity in Russia is very high, the video of Nafka and Kbao attending the dinner party together has a high number of clicks on the social media, and Kbao has received a heart-shaped necklace engraved with "the champion in our minds".
Nafka's voice was quickly forwarded to multiple social media, and netizens in the United States, Britain, france and other countries began bombing her social media, all kinds of explosive foul language, and personal attacks under the video of her little daughter singing.
Soon Nafka's social media was attacked, she did not even dare to open the comment area, and she also deleted some recent news, which can only be said to be too tragic.
Text/Yan Xiaobai