MOSCOW, September 5, Pavel Levkovich. Sabre fencer Konstantin Lokhanov excluded from the national team Russia in fencing, President of the Russian Fencing Federation (FFR) Ilgar Mammadov told RIA Novosti. Earlier, Match TV reported that Olympic saber fencing champion Sofia Lokhanova was divorcing her husband Konstantin after he moved to the United States. Sophia's father, Stanislav Pozdnyakov, president of the Russian Olympic Committee, said that Lokhanov left for the United States and did not inform anyone from the leadership of the Russian Fencing Federation (FFR). In America, he intends to engage in coaching. He offered Sophia to go with him, but the girl decided to stay in Russia and file for divorce. «Konstantin ceased to be an athlete of the Russian national team when he wrote a statement and left the federal state institution» Center for Sports Training of Russian National Teams «(FGBU TsSP). He also left CSKA. What prompted him to do this? Unwillingness to return? Everything was done for him at the highest level. I would like to ask questions to Konstantin. For us, he is now a phantom, he is simply nowhere. I talked with him when he was being treated in Germany, because that there was a question of money, payment and other technical things. Transfers were no longer accepted, it was necessary to resolve issues differently. And after he left Germany for America, he didn’t even hear him. I don’t even know when he went to the USA. Was he treated for the federation's money? He spent money there, and then he had to receive compensation in Russia,» Mammadov said.
