“According to journalists, after the Olympics in Paris, the athlete has never returned to Ukraine.”, — write: sport.unian.ua
According to journalists, after the Olympics in Paris, the athlete has never returned to Ukraine.
The silver medalist of the 2024 Olympics Ilya Kovtun was not part of the Ukrainian gymnastics team before / photo Instagram/_kovtun_gym_The Ministry of Youth and Sports has published an order with the approved composition of the national teams of Ukraine for summer Olympic sports for 2025. In particular, the composition of the national gymnastics team is published on the website of the ministry.It is noted that Ilya Kovtun and Radomir Stelmakh, who were not there before according to the order of the Ministry of Youth Sports, were included in the Ukrainian national team.
As UNIAN wrote, the silver medalist of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris in gymnastics Ilya Kovtun and his coach Iryna Gorbacheva wanted to change their sports citizenship. According to journalists, the 21-year-old native of Cherkassy can start playing for the Croatian national team. The final decision should be made by 2025.
Tribuna.com also reported at the beginning of December that after the Olympics in Paris, the athlete has never returned to Ukraine. Then the journalists turned to Kovtun and Gorbacheva for a comment, but never received a response.
The latest sports newsAs UNIAN wrote, they want to appoint a coach who worked in occupied Crimea as the head of the Ukrainian national team. We are talking about Oleg Polyakov, whose appointment to a new position took place due to the pressure of the president of the Weightlifting Federation of Ukraine, Oleksandr Gerega, on the Ministry of Sport.
It was also reported that Ukraine won the first medal in women’s biathlon among juniors in 5 years. Iryna Shevchenko managed to win the award.
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