Lesun said he was shocked after reading his interview on the BBC

MOSCOW, April 15, Andrey Simonenko. 2016 Olympic champion in modern pentathlon Oleksandr Lesun admitted that he really talked to a BBC journalist, but she heard what she wanted to hear. On Wednesday, the BBC published an interview with Lesun, in which he spoke on the topic of events in Ukraine. Lesun also said that he resigned from all sports posts on February 22. Lesun has been playing for Russia since 2009, he previously represented Belarus. «I love Russia, I love Belarus too, for me these are two native countries, I am their patriot. I put an end to my career as an athlete. Now a new stage begins in my life. I I don't know what it will be. But I would like to connect my future with sports, with modern pentathlon and with Russia,» Lesun said in a statement provided by the press service of the Russian Federation of Modern Pentathlon. si. Answered a number of her questions. But when I read my interview today, I was shocked. It seems that I said one thing, and the journalist heard something else, what she wanted to hear. For example, the phrase that «since the end of February I have been more I will not play for Russia» is structured in such a way that anyone who reads it has the impression that I refuse to play for the Russian national team for some reason that happened at the end of February. And at that time a special operation began in Ukraine. Although these sob outings are not connected in any way. I just decided to end my sports career and on February 22, that is, two days before the start of the Ukrainian events, I wrote a statement about it. That is, I said: «I am finishing my sports career.» And the journalist wrote: «I will no longer play for the Russian national team,» the athlete said.