On January 1, Russian propaganda decided to “boast” that the International Cycling Union (UCI) in “seven months has assigned neutral status to 69 athletes, of which 43 are Russians”. At the same time, according to the UCI list updated on November 16, four Russians were denied such status and access to competitions. These are Alexey Obydennov, Anastasia Voinova, Maria Novolodskaya and Danila Burlakov; compared to the “summer” list, it additionally included Burlakov, who previously worked for CSKA and publicly supported Russian Nazism.
This situation is another reason to track the “Crimean biography” of these aggressor’s “cyclists”, and, as one would expect, it is rich. Thus, “three-time world champion in paracycling” Alexey Obydennov, like Burlakov later, was banned from participating in international competitions for direct support of large-scale Russian aggression on social networks. At the same time, Obydennov is known not only for his participation in the meldonium scandal of 2016, but also for his “tours” in the Artek captured by the invaders, where the armless Paralympian “shared the formula for success “Everything is in your hands!” in 2018, calling for brainwashing in the form of “serious attention to patriotic education” and strainedly “admiring the transformations” of the occupiers on the peninsula.
“Thirteen-time European champion” and “Olympic medalist in track cycling” Anastasia Voinova from the agressor’s army “Dynamo” club and “bronze medalist of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in track cycling” Maria Volodskaya boasted of “sports training” in the occupied Crimea, in Alupka, Miskhor and Alushta, many times since 2015. At the same time, Voinova directly and criminally stated regarding it to aggressor’s “Crimean” propaganda that “you always want to train at home” and that the occupation of Crimea is “beneficial for the ministry and the federation”, since “there is no need to pay foreign fees”.
Moreover, the “benefit” from such criminal activity is really great, and, naturally, it goes into fairly specific pockets.
The main facility through which the “federals” laundered funds, and at the “facilities” of which the mentioned “cyclists” were “noted”, was the criminal “Training Center for Sports Training of Russian National Teams” “Krymsky”, on the site seized into “federal property” by the occupiers in 2014 Olympic training and sports complex “Spartak” in Alushta. It is noteworthy that the occupiers laundered through “Krymsky” almost one and a half billion rubles through “state procurement”, and through “services” for all kinds of “corporate games” they laundered another 17 million. This “grain place” has long been “headed” by Sochi swindler Dmitry Storozhev, who was involved before in the “city sports council”, “social and sports organization of disabled people” and “Thai boxing federation” on the Caucasian coast.
Let us recall that the UCI, like other international sports federations, previously received from our Association submissions, prepared by Professor Borys Babin, regarding the inadmissibility of participation in international competitions by “athletes” of the aggressor who contribute to the occupation of the Crimea.
