Volleyball
Olympic medalist Gracheva believes that Voronkov, who made a racist statement, should not remain silent
Andrey Voronkov / Photo: © VK “Uralochka”
Olympic silver medalist in volleyball Tatyana Gracheva believes that Andrey Voronkov, the head coach of the Kaliningrad Lokomotiv, who made a racist statement about Uralochka-NTMK player Ailama Montalvo, should not be silent in this situation.
Voronkov, during a time-out in the fifth match of the final series of the Russian championship with Uralochka-NTMK on May 12, giving an instruction to his players, called Valery Zaitseva aside, saying: “Why are you catching this monkey again?” It got on the air of “Match TV”. The Cuban player Montalvo played for Uralochka, who later left the club.
Earlier, the disciplinary commission of the WFV recommended that the coach be disqualified for up to two years.
– Until a specific decision on the period of disqualification has been made, this is only a recommendation of the Disciplinary Commission. And the executive committee of the WFV will decide. It is not clear why Voronkov remains silent. If he believes that he did not offend anyone, then you need to explain what he meant. If this was the case, as many understood, you need to apologize. And then let the federation decide. The worst thing in this situation is silence, – said Gracheva RT.
The situation spoils the reputation of volleyball, so the sooner Voronkov apologizes to the athlete, the better, Gracheva believes.
“Despite what happened, I am sure that there is no racism in our volleyball. Unfortunately, many people can now argue with me. But we have a very respectful attitude towards all players from all countries in any team,” Gracheva said.
The final decision on disqualification will be made on May 31 by the executive committee of the VFV. The decision of the commission noted that Lokomotiv and Voronkov personally refused to apologize in principle to Uralochka and the volleyball player herself.
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Volleyball
A doctor from the Yenisei volleyball club provided emergency assistance to a child on board the plane
The doctor of the men’s volleyball club “Yenisei” from Krasnoyarsk, Shakhriyar Mirzoev, provided emergency assistance to the boy on board the plane.
The incident happened during the New Year holidays on the Kazan-Krasnoyarsk flight. The specialist noticed that the man and child were in the toilet for 20 minutes, and the flight attendant came in there periodically.
“I approached and saw that a boy of about nine was standing at the sink filled with water and blood. At that moment, the flight attendant began to ask if there was a doctor on board, to which I replied: “I’m a doctor, I’ll help now.”
I tried to stop the bleeding using cotton wool and improvised means that the conductors had, applying cold to the bridge of the nose. But this had no effect – everything was soaked in blood. The bleeding did not stop for about 20 minutes.
I tried to calm the child down and began to think about what to do next. I asked the flight attendants for a first aid kit and found ampoules of adrenaline there. Having opened two ampoules, I soaked two cotton pads with the solution and inserted them deep into the child’s nose. After a couple of minutes, I saw that the blood had stopped,” AiF Krasnoyarsk quotes Mirzoev as saying.
The child came to his senses. As it turned out, the boy had undergone surgery to remove his adenoids the day before, which probably caused the bleeding.
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Novosibirsk Lokomotiv defeated Moscow MSTU in the match of the 18th round of the Russian Volleyball Championship.
The meeting in Moscow ended with a score of 3–2 (25:21, 20:25, 25:23, 23:25, 15:10) in favor of the guests.
Lokomotiv scored 44 points and ranks second in the Super League standings, MSTU (6 points) is 16th.
In other matches of the day, the Gazprom-Ugra club beat Dynamo-Ural from Ufa at home (3–0, 26:24, 28:26, 25:21), Nizhny Novgorod Gorky lost away to Orenburg (0–3, 28:30, 11:25, 25:27), Belogorye took victory over Yaroslavich in Tula (3–0, 25:17, 25:15, 25:22).
In the Women’s Super League, Minsk in the away match of the 17th round defeated the Zarechye-Odintsovo team with a score of 3-2 (15:25, 22:25, 25:21, 25:15, 15:7).
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Volleyball
Volleyball players of St. Petersburg “Zenith” beat “Nova” and won their fifth victory in a row in the Super League
St. Petersburg “Zenith” defeated “Nova” from Novokuybyshevsk in the match of the 18th round of the Russian Volleyball Championship.
The meeting in St. Petersburg ended with a score of 3–2 (25:17, 25:21, 19:25, 20:25, 15:13). Zenit extended its winning streak in the Super League to five matches.
In other matches of the day, Zenit Kazan beat Krasnoyarsk Yenisey at home – 3-1 (25:18, 25:20, 25:27, 25:20), the Dynamo-LO club (Sosnovy Bor) defeated Kemerovo Kuzbass at home – 3-0 (25:15, 25:19, 25:20).
The leader in the table is Zenit Kazan (16 wins, 45 points), Zenit from St. Petersburg (14 wins, 43 points) is second.
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