Skip to main content

Maria Paseka, 2012 and 2016 Olympian, experiencing difficulties renewing her passport to work in China

2012 and 2016 Olympian Maria Paseka is experiencing some difficulties in her everyday life in Russia.  She returned from China, where she had been working as a coach, a few weeks ago.  The Chinese team has offered her more work, but she canā€™t get her passport renewed.  Read her words via TASS : 


ā€˜Gymnast Paseka received an offer to work as a coach in one of the Chinese sports schools


šŸ’¬ ā€œI received an offer to work at one of the Chinese public sports schools,ā€ said Paseka. ā€œI havenā€™t decided anything yet, but life is developing in such a way that Iā€™ll probably stay here. I havenā€™t been able to get a passport for months now. Theyā€™re just returning it to me.ā€ and they write a refusal, and I donā€™t understand the reason.ā€


In October 2022, Paseka, together with another Russian gymnast Tatyana Nabieva, left for China to work with that countryā€™s womenā€™s artistic gymnastics team. In August, after the expiration of the contract with the Chinese Gymnastics Association, they returned to Russia.


šŸ’¬"Almost two months have passed since my return from China, I am gradually forgetting the phrases in Chinese that I managed to learn there. I really enjoyed working there, the girls are very efficient, they want to train, their workload is very heavy. We even had to stop a little. As for Chinese food, itā€™s light and suits me very well, but Russian food makes me feel like Iā€™m plump,ā€ added Paseka.


ā€œI want to emphasize that I did not betray my homeland, as some wrote on social networks a year ago. Itā€™s just not always easy for former athletes to immediately find work in Russia. But I personally am not yet ready to announce that I have finished my career,ā€ concluded the TASS interlocutorā€™

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Svetlana Boginskaya: I was always a bitch* in gymnastics

Svetlana Boginskaya, 15 years old, with her medals from the Seoul Olympics Nico translates the latest interview with gymnastics legend Svetlana Boginskaya, during a recent visit to her home country of Belarus. Svetlana Boginskaya: I was always a bitch* in gymnastics, so now I ask for forgiveness from everyone who came in contact with me. The National Olympic Committee of Belarus held a press conference with three-time Olympic Champion in artistic gymnastics, Svetlana Boginskaya. The meeting was devoted to the 25th anniversary of the Olympic Games in Seoul. In South Korea the Belarussian won two gold medals in the team competition and vault. As a gift to the Olympic Hall of fame, the famous gymnast, now living in the United States, donated one of her trophies that she won at the 1990 European Championships and a pennant for Best Female Athlete of the USSR in 1989. How happy we were when we could share with such stars as Boginskaya, Scherbo, and Ivankov,...

Our Nelli Kim : a new documentary

Nelli Kim at the 1980 Olympics, courtesy of Nellikim.net I have mixed feelings about Nelli Kim.  She was certainly one of the most talented competitors the Soviet Union fielded in gymnastics, and that is saying something. She harvested first place  all around at the 1979 World Championships, her country's only gold medal in a somewhat disastrous competition for the Soviet women.  (That competition has become a very notorious one in history, if one remembers poor Nadia Comaneci's brave performance despite a serious wrist infection, and the winning Romanian team's sickeningly unhealthy appearance in Fort Worth.) Nelli was also a great performer and character.  Her career overlapped a time of fundamental change in the sport - when the lyricism of such performers as Tourischeva was overpowered by the pyrotechnical advances of the likes of Comaneci.  Nelli managed to reconcile the two qualities, and to span the gap between the two eras.  I don't think she ever r...

RRG Archive - scroll by date, from 2024 to 2010

Show more