MOSCOW, January 21, Oleg Bogatov. Olympic medalist in figure skating, the coach of the world champions in ice dancing Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov Alexander Zhulin said that he considers the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and the recommendation to Ukrainian athletes at the Beijing Olympics to avoid comments in Russian to be «unrestrained stupidity». Earlier it became known that the biathletes of the Ukrainian national team were strongly recommended avoid joint photos with the Russians at the 2022 Games and do not give interviews in Russian. According to a source familiar with the situation, this recommendation was announced during a conversation between Ukrainian biathletes and the country's Ministry of Sports on January 20. Zhulin trains the Ukrainian pair of figure skaters Alexander Nazarov/Maxim Nikitin. “This is absolute nonsense, to be honest,” Zhulin said, commenting on this decision. “What will I do? I will speak Russian with them, I don’t know Ukrainian. they will act (in terms of interviews) — this is their own business. I think that this is unrestrained stupidity, starting with the fact that Ukraine has a conflict with Russia. This is simply the biggest stupidity that can be on Earth. And everything else is there are some echoes.»
