Denis Pankratov: Our sport has always been dishonest, you need to dance in general since the 50s

Two -time Olympic swimming champion Denis Pankratov, now a sports journalist, television commentator and TV presenter, shared a special opinion on the introduction of global sports sanctions against Russia.

In a very provocative interview with "Soviet sport", he put forward the thesis that the current problems of domestic sports are deep and historical.

"We are guilty of very much in many ways. Almost all accusations in the direction of Russia are not heir. It is necessary to dance at all since the 1950s, when this country was accepted into the Olympic family. What is written in the Olympic Charter?" The state has no right to participate in sports. "All our federations were sitting, sitting and sitting in conditional state sports. All the leaders of the federations, it turned out, we have come up with officials. In the world of Olympiads, having deceived everyone and violating everything, ”said the Olympic champion.

Pankratov recalled that the competitions of amateur sports of the USSR and Russia were constantly put up against the students of the Red Machine .

“Our whole sport has always been dishonest. We expose special forces against children. We are not the most sports nation. We know this very well. And we are not the most powerful athletes. But we are not competing with those not equal to ourselves. Since the 50s, we are constantly deceiving, lying and behaving incorrectly in relation to the rest of the world. Well, once we should say“ Stop ”? The former swimmer indicates.

“Again, I got into doping stories,” Pankratov continues. “We violate all possible laws. We look for all the loopholes, not too legitimate, we provide left -wing certificates -“ struggle. ”The general principle: we deceive, time, we also think: the world community also thinks: to give us a ban or not to give it? Now some hellish ball of Sata is going on, the world community is trying to return us to the ground And we still continue to lie and rest.

The Olympic champion admits that doping is everywhere. But the world requires not only purity from Russia - it requires that the state leave sports.

“All over the world, the child is playing sports because parents pay,” he reminded. “And we have been preparing special forces from our childhood. We are destroying everything around. They have children and become people. In our free time, we have a little sports. And we have six training a day. Nobody is studying, all these are such (knocking on the table), but we win the state. Remove the state from the sports. Not separately to the athletes - to Russia, which puts athletes on doping. "

“Now we will have a 4 -year -old ban and officials will have enough time to think about how to live on. We were given so many advances! And we continue to play our games. There is no conspiracy - we ourselves created this situation because we considered ourselves the most smart and cunning,” summed up Pankratov.