Russians laugh in the face of the world because of Isinbayeva. “Putin’s pet” still works

Jens Weinreich is a German journalist who has been tracking the scams in the Olympic movement for the past 25 years. He is the author of books and other publications on the subject. He claims that the most important documents on the history of sport are still in the Lubyanka in Moscow, where the KGB, the Soviet security service, and later the FSB had its headquarters.

Samaranch was an agent of the KGB?

According to Weinreich, cooperation with the Russians ensured brilliant careers in the Olympic movement. The agent of the KGB was to be the president of the IOC, Juan Antonio Samaranch, who had been recruited while he was still the Spanish ambassador to Moscow.

Samaranch’s cooperation with the KGB was revealed by a lieutenant-colonel of this organization, Vladimir Popov, who escaped to Canada. In his opinion, it was thanks to the Soviet services that the Spaniard became the head of the IOC in 1980.

Weinreich also has no doubts that Vitaliy Smirnov, who has been active in the IOC since 1971, is also part of the KGB agent. Currently, the Russian is an honorary member. His place in the respectable organization was taken by Yelena Isinbayeva, a Russian Army Major, known in Poland mainly for her world records in pole vault and Olympic medals.

Isinbayeva wrote Putin’s constitution

Isinbayev has not yet commented on the case of Russia’s bandit attack on Ukraine. It is hard to expect, however, that she would have a different opinion than Vladimir Putin. And it’s not just that Isinbayeva was in the army. The former pole vault is the pet of the Russian president. It was she who sat as a representative of athletes in the group of 75 people who, at Putin’s request, prepared a new constitution for Russia.

The Ukrainian Olympian W³adys³aw Heraskiewicz, who appeared in the skeleton in Beijing, drew attention to the ambiguity of the situation in connection with the attack by Russia. Now the Ukrainian writes in the case of Isinbayeva:

While the IOC calls: Give peace a chance, several IOC members (Isinbayeva being one of them) openly support war. Where is the IOC Ethics Committee? In this situation, do we also separate politics from sport?

Isinbayeva lives in Monaco on a daily basis. Her move to the principality on the Cote d’Azur caused considerable consternation in Russia due to its justification. The Russian said that she moved out of Volgograd because it is “a poor, old and terrible city”.

Smirnov has survived all the storms in Russia. KGB agent in the IOC?

But it is even more scandalous that the honorary member of the IOC remains the aforementioned Smirnov. Weinreich calls him the “architect of the Soviet sports system” who knew all about the doping methods of both the USSR and Russia.

In the years 1970-75, Smirnov was the deputy minister of sports in the USSR, then in the years 1981-90 he was the minister of sport of the Russian republic, which was part of the Soviet Union. Previously, he was also the executive chairman of the organizing committee of the Olympic Games in Moscow (1975-1980). In 1990–92 he was the head of the Olympic Committee of the USSR, and after the collapse of the Soviet state, he held the same position in the Russian Olympic Committee (1992–2001). Since 2001, he has been the honorary president. The regimes changed, the rulers in Moscow changed, and from 1971 Smirnow continued to occupy the most important positions in Russian sports.

He was also not harmed by the corruption scandal of the 1990s, when it was proved that the organizing committee of the Games in Salt Lake City gave him gifts in excess of the admissible value and provided other gratuities – such as a university scholarship for a protégé or a free surgery for a former Russian hockey player. At that time, Smirnov only received a “serious reprimand” from the IOC authorities.

Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky, in his book “The KGB Plays Chess”, which appeared in 2009, claims that Smirnow had been an agent of the KGB since 1978.

Tarpiszczew calls the Williams sisters brothers, and advises footballers to play in Syria to mock FIFA

Another member of the IOC (since 1996) is Shamil Tarishchev, president of the Russian Tennis Federation. The latter, in turn, “shone” when in 2014, in an entertainment program on the 1st channel of Russian television, he named the tennis stars Venus and Seren ± Williams braæmi Williams. For this utterly stupid joke, Tarpiszczew was fined PLN 25,000. dollars by the WTA and the withdrawal from all activities in the tournaments of this organization of women’s tennis.

Now, when FIFA initially – before it completely threw Russia out of the competition – forbade her to play in its territory and under the national flag, Tarpiszczew told the RIA Nowosti agency: – We will play in Serbia! They will support us 100 percent there. Either Serbia or China. In China, they pay decently, but there are other options as well. It would be great to play in Syria to mock these decisions. There are also other solutions: Cuba or Venezuela. But in general, I would now write a protest against such a decision by FIFA, because sport should be separated from politics. This is discrimination against Russians.

The British daily The Times asked about the suspension of the Russians as members of the IOC. He received the answer that neither Isinbayeva nor Tarpiszczew is in danger: – The IOC may punish organizations or persons for breaking the Olympic Charter or the Olympic Peace – said the spokesman of the organization and pointed out that several Russians had already been deprived of the Olympic Order – e.g. Putin. – Only the governments of Russia and Belarus are responsible for the breaking of the Olympic Peace.