Uzbek legend can’t fly the flag at the last minute: “This can’t be done”



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Gymnastics legend athlete 46 years Oksana Chusovitina He came to participate in his eighth (!) Summer Olympics and was hoping to carry the Uzbek flag at the opening ceremony.

However, a few hours before the ceremony began, the Uzbekistan Olympic Committee decided to reverse its decision. Instead of O. Chusovitina and boxer Bob-Usmon Baturov, the flag was entrusted to another boxer Bachodir Jalolov and taekwondo fighter Nigor Tursunkulova.

O. Chusovitin was surprised by this decision. She told Sputnik Uzbekistan what she thought: “No one explained to me why they had deprived me of the right to carry the flag. They just told me that I was not going to do everything.” Cross “motivation a lot. This cannot be done. Afterwards. of everything, everything could be explained humanly “.

O. Čusovitina back in 1992. He became Olympic champion of Barcelona in 2003. He won the world championship on behalf of Uzbekistan, then began to defend the honor of Germany and in 2008. he won Olympic silver. Since 2013 he represents Uzbekistan again.

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