Semen Novikov to the Wrestling Federation: If I want to speak Ukrainian, Russian or English, I will

The Paris 2024 Olympic champion Semen Novikov threw the glove to the new leadership of the Federation of Wrestling, which introduced new ethical rules and obliged the competitors to interview and write on social networks only in Bulgarian.

The naturalized Ukrainian, who on Saturday won a silver medal for Bulgaria from the European Championship in the classic style in Bratislava, announced that he did not agree with such rules in an interview conducted on a very good Bulgarian from Novikov to BNT3. “I have a message to the federation:

If I want to speak Ukrainian, Russian or English, I will do it and no one can change my decision, « Novikov said, switching during the statement to his native Ukrainian, Russian and English respectively.

According to the struggle introduced by the Federation, at which the President recently became Stanka Zlateva, the requirements for Novikov, as well as for the gold medalist from Bratislava Magomet Ramazanov, who, on his return to Sofia, speaks to the media in Russian, there should be sanctions.

« Let there be sanctions for Magomet, punish me too. I want you to ask the federation if they will say a » thank you « to the coaches of the national teams in classical and free struggle for the presentation of the European, » Semen Novikov added to BNT. According to him, the rules of the federation bring division into national teams between Bulgarians and foreigners, which is not really in the training process. « We all fight for Bulgaria. Coach Soslan Farniev and his assistants work with all competitors and you must have seen here in Bratislava that the level of all is improving, » commented Novikov, who is now preparing for the World Cup in Zagreb in September, where a new clash with his big rival is expected to be expected to David Losons (ENT).