For the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Russian gymnastics star Khorkina said: This is God's punishment, there should be no political divisions in the world, but now these deadly ugly phenomena are happening all over the world, there is no need to bully Russia.
Ice Beauty believes that Russia must use the current situation to solve all outstanding issues. Khorkina acknowledged that the postponement of the Olympics could bring us financial or mental losses, but it was disproportionate to competing at great health risk. Khorkina called on Russia to work with the International Court of Arbitration for Sport and international associations to resolve the issue, while saying Russian athletes are preparing for 2021.
Khorkina also said on social media that postponing the Tokyo Olympics is not a simple solution that can be made, and who is the protagonist of the Olympic movement? What do they think? It's the peak of many athletes, and postponing means training plans are changing as well, but now they can only follow the rules.
Khorkina, 41, has won seven Olympic medals, two of which and nine of the 20 World Championship medals. After the 2004 Athens Olympics, Khorkina announced her retirement. Khorkina was elected to the Duma parliament in 2007 and re-elected in 2011. During pregnancy, Khorkina also said that she wanted to break her wrist with Byers after watching the Gymnastics World Championships, of course, provided that she was 15 years younger.
In 2019, Khorkina gave birth to her second son, Ivan, at the age of 40. Khorkina has always been unhappy with Russia's ban, and it is reasonable to think about the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics.
For female gymnasts, every year is very important, height and weight have a great impact on the completion of the athletes, Khorkina as a person who knows this well, so she can understand the impact of the Postponement of the Olympic Games more than the average person.