Sports commentator Dmitry Guberniev spoke about the appalling situation in the domestic biathlon. Earlier, the TV presenter became an adviser to the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation and the head of the ROC Mikhail Degtyarev.
"It is necessary to end with a very strange situation in Russian biathlon, when an absolutely illegitimate character, the deputy head of the organization "By the glasses" (Dmitry, most likely, hints at Pavel Rostovtsev — Sport24), headed the coaching council and now — with the self-removal of the head of the SBR Maigurov — collapses the team.
Huge questions to the recruitment of the team, in general, to the work of the SBR. Since Mikhail Degtyarev is now still the head of the ROC, he will have more levers to intervene in this situation, to prevent the biathlon from being ruined," Guberniev is indignant.
To the journalist's remark: "they will write to you in the comments, they say, you are settling personal scores," the commentator retorted:
"This is ridiculous. Because I see the situation from the inside — for example, how some specialists are brought drunk into the plane in front of the whole team, and then for some reason these people continue to make important decisions for Russian biathlon.
This does not cause anything but squeamishness. Now Andrei Padin is being merged. Many coaches are shocked, but fearfully silent. And for such situations there is me. I am thinking in this case exclusively about the common cause, which is suffering very much. We need to uproot such rot from our sport, and in this sense I really hope for Degtyarev."
Earlier, the media reported that an excellent specialist was de facto suspended from work due to fundamental disagreements with the senior coach of the team Mikhail Shashilov.:
"We have already lost Andrei Padin once, when he went to the Belarusians. I said then that this was not a tragedy, but a mistake. In general, a paradoxical situation arises.
Some person who came to the leadership of the SBR replaces the functions of Viktor Maygurov and rules everything in the federation, having neither the rights nor the authority to do so. He teamed up with comfortable coaches with the detachment of Maigurov, who is busy with something else. Every wedding should have its own generals, so this situation arose.
They themselves called Padin to work, and they are draining him. The excuses are cheap that he came to the international start. Vika (Victoria Slivko — Sport24) is nervous, but doesn't say anything, Padin says something on the sidelines, but he won't say it publicly, because it's not entirely ethical.
In the near future, I will bring to the attention of the ministers all that is happening there. CSP and Deputy Sports Minister Alexei Morozov are also aware. I think that Mikhail Degtyarev, as the minister and president of the ROC, will take note of this moment. An egregious situation is taking place.
I said that with the arrival of the deputy, there will be a collapse of the Russian biathlon — what we are seeing now. When alcohol interferes with the processes of team management, it does not lead to anything good."