I am a lion, Putin - anointed of God

Like Irina Wiener, who quarreled with Alina Kabaeva, in less than a year lost all the leading posts in rhythmic gymnastics

Irina Wiener's liberated place in the posts of the head coach of the Russian national rhythmic gymnastics teamwill be occupied by mentor Tatyana Sergeyev, Russian news agencies said , citing the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation. Sergaeva raised several Olympic champions, and, in addition to working in the national team, she collaborates with the Academy Alina Kabaeva.

The post left on February 12, Wiener held as many as 24 years. A few months before that, she resigned the powers of the President of the All -Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation (VFHG), the head of which was 16 years old. Combining positions, Wiener completely controlled the sport in Russia, and taking into account the unconditional leadership of Russian gymnasts at international competitions until 2021 - in the world.

Viner's positions in the international arena staggered shortly before the start of the war, when at the games in Tokyo the Russians sensationally did not take a single gold. The coach expressively accused the judges of bias, her words were considered at the disciplinary commission. After removing from international competitions, Winer directed all her expression to the domestic market - it came to a proud refusal to participate in the Olympiad in a neutral status and a semi -public conflict with Kabaeva.

Novyevropa says what happened to Winer's career in recent years and what her sharp departure from the leadership of rhythmic gymnastics in Russia may be connected with.

The past and great

Irina Viner is 76 years old, she was born in Samarkand and at the age of 11 she began to engage in rhythmic gymnastics. Being an athlete, she won three times at the championship of the Uzbek SSR, and since 1969 she switched to coaching. Winer then worked with the national teams of Uzbekistan and the UK. In 2001, she headed the national team of Russia. With Wiener, at the head of Russian rhythmic gymnastics for two decades became an unconditional leader: domestic athletes took all the gold of the Olympiads from 2000 to 2016. The coach led to the Olympic peak Alina Kabaeva, Margarita Mamun, Evgeny Canaev, Julia Barsukova. The well-known presenter and wife of comedian Pavel Laysan Utyashev also studied with Winer-she finished her sports career due to serious injury, without reaching the Olympics.

In 2015, Irina Wiener’s contribution to world sport celebrated the International Olympic Committee, handing her a silver Olympic Order. Before her, no one in the world from gymnastics coaches received such a reward. Then the dominance of Russian gymnastics in the world seemed unconditional and eternal.

But already at the OI-2020 in Tokyo, which, due to coronavirus, took place in the summer of 2021, Russia lost first place for the first time in a quarter century, and the coach hit the scandal, criticizing judges. Her student Dina Averina became the second in the personal all -around, the Russian side unsuccessfully protested the result, and Wiener called the grades of sabotage. For this, in 2023, it was removed from international tournaments for two years, and the term of removal will begin from the moment of lifting sanctions against domestic gymnastics due to the war in Ukraine.

Since 2022, Russian gymnasts mainly compete within the country. For the past two years, Winer criticized international sport and claimed that gymnasts would definitely not go to the games. They, as they claimed in the Federation, refused to speak under a neutral flag, although they could go to the tournament under it.

In 2024, Wiener turned out to be a participant in a non -public scandal, but, apparently, the conflict is already at home. At the Games of BRICS in June, the Viner team competed with the club "Heavenly Grace" of the Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva. The participation of the school in the international tournament along with the national teams is an unprecedented business. In the personal all -around, the ward Winer won, in group exercises - athletes Kabaeva. After the tournament, the main judge of the tournament Aisel Hasanova complained about Winer's behavior in the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation.

Gasanova pointed out that the coach was pressing on her, and the Russian team overshadowed the grades. Eyewitnesses overheard viner's obscene words addressed to Kabaeva. In July 2024, the Ministry of Sports demanded that the coach explain himself. The ministry sent her a letter asking me to analyze problems with refereeing and taking measures to judges who overstate the assessment of her athletes. Soon Wiener unexpectedly stated that her successor to the post of head of the WFHG could be ten -time world champion Olga Kapranova. However, in the fall, the federation was abolished by uniting sports and rhythmic gymnastics into one structure.

Then Vladimir Putin excluded Wiener from the Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports. A sports journalist who writes about gymnastics, in a conversation with the Air Force, called it "defeat on all fronts."

Putin and war

Wiener has long been close to the leadership of the country. Three times was Putin’s confidant, she spent 30 years married with billionaire Alisher Usmanov (in the sanctions documents he is called the “one of the favorite oligarchs” of the president). In the early 1980s, he made an offer directly from prison, and in 2019 he built the Palace of Gymnastics named after his wife in Moscow. They divorced marriage in July 2022. Winner denies speculation on a fictitious divorce due to sanctions. Despite such a proximity to the first person and toxic to Europe, she fell only under Ukrainian and Latvian sanctions.

On May 30, 2024, Putin handed the coach the Order for Merit to the Fatherland of the 1st degree, and she called him "the anointed of God." The Russians who are “all mobilized”, she called on to stand behind him.

In an interview in December 2024, Wiener called the president’s correct policy and supported the Russian military captivating Ukraine.

“Her is a terrible thing that takes away life, takes away the health of our gene pool. And first of all, we must not only help them with products, say. We must support them very much ",

- said Wiener.

In the same conversation, she suddenly admitted that she was afraid of the war so that she was looking at the chronicle and then could not sleep.

Coach or matchmaker?

The famous student Winer Alina Kabaeva is not only the 2004 Olympic champion, but also the alleged mother of the children of the Russian president. According to the Dossier Center, she gave birth to Putin two sons. For the first time, the media reported a meeting of the president and athlete in public precisely from the words of Wiener. In 2001, she arranged a show with singers and gymnasts after the triumphal world championship in Spain, and Vladimir Vladimirovich visited it.

“They told me about the expensive GOST last night, then at five hours I found out that he might not come, and in the morning I look: there are a lot of security. So, after all, he will come. It’s a pity that Alina could not speak, because she prepared absolutely amazing tango. But she has an injury, and so far no doctor can say what happened to her back. Thus, she had to sit next to our president and talk about rhythmic gymnastics. There is no thin one without good ... ” - Wiener told the Moscow Komsomolets.

In December 2024, the Ukrainian gymnast Anna Rizatdinova said that her Russian rivals live in a brothel, and the system was led by the head coach of the team. The Ukrainian claimed that the athletes are forcibly reduced with senior Russians, and refusal means the end of their career. There is no confirmation of these words, Wiener herself did not comment.

However, according to the journalist and the leading “popular policy” Dmitry Nizovtsev, Wiener introduced promising students with men. Moreover, only Kabaeva is known only about the case of Kabaeva. Irina Alexandrovna herself said about the pupils like this: “My most important task is to find every good husband. <...> I can give some advice, but I do not climb with my categorical "no." It is clear that if a drunk - then went out, greedy - went over twice. <...> Walking? You can withstand. "

Viner taught gymnasts that "the man is polygamous, and the woman is monogamous."

“Who wants to coordinate [the groom] - please, I am agreeing. She did not agree on one, but she still became happy, Amin Zaripova. "

- the coach later said the journalist Nadezhda Sagittarius.

Zaripova married the leader of the group “accident” by Alexei Kortnev, the couple has four children. In 2017, the singer supported the policy of Alexei Navalny. In 2022, he opposed the war of Russia with Ukraine, and his concerts began to be canceled . Cortnev later assured that he did not intend to leave the country, was engaged in charity work and helps the residents of Donbass - he sat in his house for six months.

"It is easier to drown honey in a spoonful of honey than in a barrel of tar"

Viner's wards brought Russia eight golden Olympic medals, 96 - from the world championships. The successes are colossal, but how the famous coach achieved them is criticized by observers. Wiener calls gymnasts children and treats them appropriately. He takes gadgets before the competition, considers a violation of the regime a crime and is ready to expel even the “first numbers” from the team.

“I never fuck. In a spoonful of honey, it is easier to drown than in a barrel of tar. <...> Someone thinks that I suppress them. No. I subordinate order and rules, ”Winer writes in the book“ I am nobody ... autobiography of the legendary coach ”.

In 2024, the champion of OI-2016 Margarita Mamun spoke about the cruelty of Winer and other coaches of the Russian national team. After all the humiliations, the mentor dreamed of her years, the athlete admitted. In detail, what is happening is shown in the documentary "Outside the limit." There are shots where Wiener calls the girl “full shit” and sends “to dick”; She also demands to “show drama” at the performance, reminding his father dying of oncology.

“It's like Abuser parents. <...> Irina Alexandrovna really did a lot of good person for me, it is. But I do not support such methods, I do not support any violence, physical or moral, ”Mamun shared his emotions with Blogger Vitya Kravchenko eight years later.

After the release of the film, the representative of the Finnish Federation of Gymnastics Liis Alquist-Lehkosuo shared a terrible impression of what she saw. According to her, Wiener completely crossed the borders. Viner criticized for the “camp slang” and the attitude towards students sports commentator Gennady Orlov: “Well, how so? I would have my daughter - my daughter - I would never give these coaches into the hands of these coaches. ”

Irina Wiener sees the situation in his own way. She reminded her about the father of Margarita that she gathered for him, and this helps, the coach claims. In a fresh interview, Wiener says that Mamun "suddenly came up with other stories."

“[Coaching despotism must be eradicated] Mandatory. And in general, the coaches need to be eradicated. And Tanya Tarasov needs to be eradicated. Because, for example, to bring Bestemyanov to her senses, she gave her a slap in the face. "

- Wiener says sarcastically.

She recalls that she never screamed at the same Kabaeva, and did not scold the silver medalist of the Olympics, Jan Kudryavtsev, but, according to the coach, it was impossible differently. With Amina Zaripova, apparently, too - Winner broke her earlobe to return to the arena before the performance. It worked: Amina won two bronzes, then became two -time European champion and later entered the coaching headquarters Wiener.

“Wiener did not have time to weaken the grip ... And the earlobe suddenly broke. This is exactly what brought me to life, ”she recalled.

God and Sodom

Irina Wiener believes in God and in astrology. The coach says that the horoscope promises her success in life thanks to love for children. The zodiac sign explained its character.

“You understand, I am a lion. I can’t stand criticism. But if this is criticism on the case, I am happy to endure her, but I accept it for granted, ”she said .

She also claimed that she received talent from the Lord and was obliged to work him out, and in the children there should be a spark of God - she was lit by the coach. For games in London in 2012 and the World Championship in Japan in 2021, she left the seven-shot icon of the Mother of God. Wiener calls himself a guide of the heavenly office.

“I am a guide. I get information from there, I repeat. Do not listen to me, it means that you do not listen to the heavenly office, ”she writes in an autobiography.

At a meeting with Putin last year, she turned to the hall with the words: "We are all believers here." She called the Biblical-Chinch-style Olympics and Gomorrah.

Wiener considered it so humiliating to go to the games in Paris that she agreed to the neutral status of athletes with the team of homeless people.

She later stated that she had never called the Olympians, but only repeated the words of the mayor of Paris about the "refugees people." This, they say, the journalists were completely paraphrased.

One of her students Lala Kramarenko admitted that she broke up with a dream of games, because she missed them in 2024, and her career would not last until her next. In January, Wiener said that the doctors removed Kramarenko a healthy meniscus instead of the damaged. The father of the gymnast did not confirm this information and said that he had no complaints about the doctors. Winer later explained the words "emotions and love for her girls."

At the Games themselves, student Winer Anastasia Bliznyuk as a coach led to the victory of the Chinese national team.

The BBC writes that the end of last year in Russian sports there was a turn to return to the international arena and “hawks” like Wiener began to lose positions. He who would take her place was not immediately clear. One option suggested clearly: that very student . Another, according to the sources of the Baza telegram channel, is Olga Kapranova , vice-president of the Russian gymnastics Federation.

On February 22, Tatyana Sergaeva was appointed to a vacant post. The candidacy was agreed by the Minister of Sports and the head of the Olympic Committee of Russia Mikhail Degtyarev. Sergaeva, Honored Coach of the Russian Federation, for 17 years worked as a senior coach of the national team in group exercises. Among her students are the Olympic champions Anastasia Bliznyuk, Anastasia Maksimova, Anastasia Tatareva and Maria Tolkacheva. She also trained the European champion among juniors Anna Popova and the world and European champion Ekaterina Malygin.

It also makes attention that Sergaeva combines work in the national team with employment at the Academy of Alina Kabaeva “Heavenly Grace”. The academy website periodically tell how the mentor trains gymnasts students there.

“The association took its place in the development of rhythmic gymnastics, its path. There is one road, there is a second, and you are right on your way, which I like, because

This makes it possible to develop independently of something and anyone. This makes it possible to invent and develop some new methods and new rules, a new style in rhythmic gymnastics ”,

- Sergaeva told about her work with the Academy of Kabaeva.

Bright and epoch -making

Leaving the post, Wiener said that she wanted to transfer experience to trainers who will prepare “future generations of stars”. Alina Kabaeva spoke about the former mentor with maximum respect, called her departure by the loss of an entire era in rhythmic gymnastics.

“Irina Alexandrovna is a symbol of strength, grace and desire for excellence. She gave us the unforgettable moments of the triumph and pride, and her achievements will forever remain in history, ”the president of Heavenly Grace gave tribute.

In general, rhythmic gymnastics is associated only with the name Wiener, said Tatyana Tarasova figure skating coach. The Minister of Sports and President of the OKR Mikhail Degtyarev believes that Wiener’s contribution to the development of sports cannot be overestimated.

“Irina Aleksandrovna Viner is an era in Russian rhythmic gymnastics, under her leadership our team has become a recognized leader in world sports,” said Oleg Belozerov, President of the Gymnastics Federation.

Sports journalist Elena Vaitskhovskaya called Winer the most vivid figure in the gymnastics "in all respects." At the same time, she believes that the coach leaves the loser and step aside would be worth in 2020.

“It was quite obvious that world gymnastics, as it were, rejects the coach. <...> on the other, it was very sports on the part of the coach: to rest and at all costs to prove to this world that he was wrong, and you are not broken, ”she writes.