Lukashenka's assistant: coaches and functionaries are guilty of failure
Ihar Zaichkou spoke about the results of the London Olympics for the Belarusian sportsmen.
According to the words of the first
Vice-President of the National Olympic Committee and the state leader's
assistant on the issues of physical culture, sports and development of tourism,
our team showed nothing outstanding. "As for some kinds of sports, our
performance in them was a failure. We should not blame the athletes - they
struggled, they did their best. We should blame some of our sports functionaries,
and some coaches as well. We are going to hold a session soon, summarize the
results, and make some personnel amendments" - BELTA quotes Zaichkou's words.
As for the case of Nadzeya Astapchuk, who was deprived of the Olympic golden
medal by the International Olympic Committee, Ihar Zaichkou promised to
"fight" for the medal of the Belarusian shot-putter. However, they
will conduct an investigation first in order to find out how the prohibited
preparation got into the athlete's body.
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