MOSCOW, Oct 6 Four-time Olympic medalist in artistic gymnastics Maria Paseka announced about leaving Russia. Previously, Pasika stated that her goal was the Olympics in Paris. The gymnast has not competed since the beginning of 2020. In 2019, she became the European champion in the vault. Later, the athlete noted that she would gradually leave the sport. «As I already said, big changes are coming. My departure from the country will give me new thoughts, a new attitude to everything, a new me. This is my unloading, where I can develop myself, see something new, even feel something new in yourself. And then we'll see how everything goes when I return to my homeland, «Pasika wrote on Instagram (Meta's activities (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist). Collection 27 -year-old Paseka three silvers and one bronze, won in the team tournament and in the vault at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, she also won the world championships in the vault twice (2015, 2017).
