Two-time world champion Yekaterina Gamova said that Lokomotiv coach Andrey Voronkov refused to apologize for racist insults to Cuban Uralochka volleyball player Ailama Montalvo.
On May 19, the disciplinary commission of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation (VVF) found Voronkov guilty of disciplinary violations, calling Montalvo a “monkey” and recommended that the VVV executive committee disqualify up to two experts. years.
“punishment [для Воронкова] should be clear. Two years of disqualification is very heavy, but if the Lokomotiv coach and management had reacted and apologized in the first hours after the incident, the situation would not have developed according to such a harsh scenario. It is difficult to say why Voronkov has not yet made a public apology. The situation has gone too far. The explanation may take a long time. If he doesn’t apologize, he thinks these are not offensive words. Perhaps he decided to wait for the decision of his fate. I do not know how else to explain this, ”RIA Novosti quoted Gamova.
