Andrey SenchenkoSport correspondentAll materialsWrite to the authorMikhail Gorbachev died on August 30 after a long illness. The only president of the USSR in history was 91 years old. Serious changes in the country and the world are connected with his activities, which led to a number of historical events, and it was Gorbachev who became the main ideologist of perestroika. nevertheless filled out. This happened, for example, in 2016 before the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Due to a high-profile doping scandal in domestic athletics, Russians were not allowed to participate in competitions. From Russia at the Olympics, only long jumper Daria Klishina performed. The rest of the athletes and coaches, despite the futile efforts to defend their rights in the Court of Arbitration for Sport, had to put up with the idea of a pipe dream to get to Brazil.
