Viktor Petrenko, Olympic figure skating champ from Ukraine, rebuked for Russia performance

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Viktor Petrenko, the 1992 Olympic determine skating champion from Ukraine, had a month-to-month stipend revoked by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy partially as a result of Petrenko participated in a determine skating present in Russia in July.

On July 8, Petrenko took half in “The Scarlet Flower,” a determine skating present within the 2014 Olympic host Sochi organized by 2006 Olympic ice dance champion Tatiana Navka, the spouse of Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.

Petrenko, 53, reportedly performed the daddy of a personality performed by 16-year-old Kamila Valieva, the Russian skater who positioned fourth on the Beijing Olympics amid a still-unresolved revelation of a optimistic drug take a look at from Christmas.

On July 9, Ukraine’s figure skating federation revoked Petrenko’s membership and position as vp.

“The previous athlete made his shameful choice regardless of the bloody full-scale warfare that Russia has been waging,” the federation said in a statement, according to a New York Times translation, including that he carried out “in the identical crew with the supporters of this horrible warfare.”

Olympic and Paralympic medalists from Ukraine can obtain lifetime stipends from the nation. These funds can be suspended or revoked for leaving to work overseas, for being penalized by a nationwide or worldwide sports activities federation or for stopping instantly collaborating within the growth of athletes.

Zelenskyy’s office announced Monday that Petrenko additionally stopped collaborating within the growth of athletes.

Petrenko’s most recent Instagram post from Feb. 25 learn “NO WAR.”

The next week, Petrenko was stranded in Kyiv after getting back from a thirtieth anniversary commemoration of his Olympic title in his hometown of Odessa, according to The New York Times.

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