Domestic biathlon continues to lose professional staff. Today it turned out that three more of our athletes decided to change sports citizenship - Ekaterina Shumilova, Pavel Magazeev and Anastasia Tolmacheva. This was announced by the president of the Biathlon Federation of Moldova Ivan Florian. Thus, the Russians intend to speak for the national team of the country, which in the world ranking does not appear anywhere at all. "While all documents are not ready for us, so that they can start to speak for Moldova, but this process is going on. I think this year this agreement will be coordinated with the SBR. So far we have no documents on the national level so that we can start the procedure, "Sport24 quotes Floryana as saying.. According to him, at the moment Russian biathlonists do not have the right to officially support the colors of the Moldovan flag. "They are not yet authorized for Moldova.
They do not have all the necessary documents to speak for Moldova. It was an unofficial start (we are talking about the summer biathlon championship in Poland). They just wanted to perform, but they did not officially speak for Moldova, they just acted for practice, "Florian said.. On the eve of the domestic sports media, they were surprised to say that the Russians Shumilova, Magazeev and Tolmachev took part in the Polish biathlon championship in Duszniki Zdroj as part of the Moldavian team. At the same time, Shumilova last played for the Russian national team at the World Cup stage in the Finnish Kontiolahti in 2017. The athlete is the champion of Europe 2015. And Magazeev and Tolmacheva had not been summoned to the national team in general. The head of the Russian Biathlon Union (SBR), Vladimir Drachev, commenting on the "escape" of compatriots in a foreign camp of biathletes, said that he did not receive official letters from either Chisinau or the athletes themselves. For the procedure for transferring to another national team, athletes or their trainers must contact the sports federation. But Russia has the right to impose a quarantine on biathletes. "We are talking about those athletes who are still in the national team, even in the reserve lists," RIA FAN Drachev said.. The agency recalls that Agent Shumilova already said that the 31-year-old sportswoman made a decision to stop performances for the Russian team in May. Earlier on August 2, Russian biathletes Ekaterina Bekh, Anastasia Rasskazova and Oksana Moskalenko decided to compete in international competitions under the flag of Ukraine. Then in the Biathlon Federation of the country said that the parents of athletes - Ukrainians. The next loss was hard commented on "Soviet Sport" legendary four-time Olympic champion Alexander Tikhonov: "It's just that from today's situation in the Russian biathlon run.
One coach went to Canada, the second - to Korea, leaving the national team because they do not believe in the new leadership. I made a mistake in Drachev, thought that he worked fine, so I decided to support. And he dispersed all, got illiterate and talentless people ". In his view, the SBR is now in a mess, and the current flight of Russians is not the last, including from the coaching staff. Well, for fans of biathlon, we remind that today in the Czech Nove Place the summer biathlon world championship starts, both among juniors and main teams.