MOSCOW, Apr 12 Two-time Olympic champion Russian snowboarder Vic Wild supported freestyler Anastasia Tatalina, who made accusations against the coaches of the Russian national team. Earlier, Tatalina, in an open letter addressed to the Minister of Sports of Russia Oleg Matytsin, which was at the disposal of Sport-Express, accused the head coach of the Russian national team Nikita Vasilyev of demanding that she transfer half of the funds earned for winning the 2021 World Cup. Subsequently, according to Tatalina, the coaches of the national team announced a boycott of her, which led to the disruption of preparations for the Beijing Olympics. Vasiliev himself stated that he never asked the athletes to transfer the prize money, but on the contrary, the specialists paid for the restoration of the athlete from their own funds. «Anastasia (Tatalina) is telling the truth. I'm tired of seeing how our best athletes are treated like garbage. Sports federations should be involved responsible,» Wilde wrote on Instagram (the activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist). The Russian Ministry of Sports on Monday announced that it would conduct a thorough and objective check of the information contained in Tatalina's letter.
