Valuev appreciated the idea of ​​creating same -sex duets in figure skating

State Duma deputy, former boxing champion Nikolai Valuev appreciated the idea of ​​creating same -sex duets in figure skating. His words are given by Sport24.

“I am for the classic figure skating and for the classic of sports. This is not a place of demonstration of deviations or gender experiments, ”Valuev shared, noting that this destroys world sport. At the same time, he recalled that in many sports there are same -sex teams and so the new section of the competition in the form of sports can arise. In his opinion, the main thing is that the sport does not become the propaganda of non -traditional views and relationships or manipulations in the form of a floor change.

“There is the Olympiad and the Paralympic Games. And “this” needs their “games”. We do not play like that. For those who want to play, please – organize same -sex dancing on ice. And then no one will have to blame anyone: accept or not accept, ”he said.

Earlier, the Olympic champion in ice dancing Natalya Bestemyanova supported the competition of same -sex duets in this sport. Olympic champion in speed skating and State Duma deputy Svetlana Zhurova approved the idea if there is no LGBT-Podopleki in it (The international public movement of LGBT is recognized as extremist and is prohibited in the Russian Federation). Biathlon, two -time Olympic champion Dmitry Vasiliev and Honored Coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova did not support the idea.

Olympic champion Frenchwoman Gabriela Papadakis and American Madison Hubbell acted like a female duet at the Art on Ice Gala show in Zurich. In competitions under the auspices of the International Union of Skate, such duets do not take part.