KAZAN, March 6, Vadim Kuznetsov. Coach of the Russian national gymnastics team Valentina Rodionenko said that the head of the International Artistic Gymnastics Federation (FIG), Morinari Watanabe, supports Russian athletes and hopes that they will be allowed to compete in the near future. FIG on Saturday announced that Russian and Belarusian athletes were suspended from competitions under the auspices of the federation in connection with the events in Ukraine. «Watanabe treats us very well, he supports our team. We were admitted to the World Cup under his responsibility, and the majority were against the results of the executive committee. Watanabe says that he does everything so that we perform, and when hostilities, then he will convene the executive committee again and try to let us in. But this is talk. What will happen next, no one knows. We continue to work. It is interesting for us to compete with the strongest. e competition for the Olympic Games. This is very expensive,» Rodionenko said.
