“I am Russian, and this is already sufficient on its own!” Lovchev – about the arrival of Virolainen soldiers for Finland in biathlon
“I am Russian, and this is already sufficient on its own!” Lovchev – about the arrival of Virolainen soldiers for Finland in biathlon
Former defender of the USSR national football team Evgeny Lovchev skeptical about the desire of the biathlete Daria Virolainen soldier for the Finnish national team.
Earlier, Virolainen said on Match TV: “Now it looks like a betrayal, but I have been living here for 6 years and I have no other option. I am 33 years old, we have promising young people in the Russian national team, I am an old and sick woman for a long time by the standards of Russian biathlon, and also with observers. I will play for the Finnish national team only if I get in shape and I’m ready for it.
“All the time of the poisoning, we say that we do not close the borders, we give visas and something else. The testimony we left to the people. You don’t have to show anything to anyone! They are [Запад] they moved away from us, and now we are thinking here.
The same Virolainen. She was Reztsova until recently. She took the surname Virolainen in order to possibly be a warrior for Finland. Maybe, but I don’t know what’s in your head. Shrinked our sports people. I am Russian, and this is already sufficient on its own! Lovchev told Match TV.
Virolainen, 33, is the daughter of three-time Olympic champion Anfisa Reztsova and the sister of Christina Reztsova, who won bronze and silver in Beijing 2022. Virolainen missed last season due to pregnancy, earlier she climbed the podium at the World Cup.
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