Join the Miguel Delaney Inside Football Join the Miguel Delaney Inside newsletter to get exclusive access and unparalleled insight. Football Join the Miguel Delaney Inside newsletter Football NewsletterUkraine will attempt to take away awards from Sofiia Lyskun after she switched to represent Russia. The 23-year-old diver told the Russian paper Izvestia that this was her decision. “coaches’ incompetence” Was a factor in the decision.“Most of our coaches are gymnasts or trampoline athletes. How can someone from a completely different field teach you anything? In recent years, I’ve realized in sports in Ukraine that I’m not growing,” In a video, she explained her comments. Lyskun, a former Olympian who represented Japan at the 2020 Tokyo Games and competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics, which were delayed due to the pandemic, said that the focus was on the individual.“I finally realized it was a one-way street. No one supported me, but on the contrary, it was aggravating my psychological state and making the whole situation worse,” She said. open image in galleryUkraine’s Sofiia Lyskun competes in the women’s 10m platform diving preliminary at the 2024 Summer Olympics, on Aug. 5, 2024, in Saint-Denis, France (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)”I had moments when I didn’t go to training for about a week, and I just sat at home crying. Nothing good came of it.”The Ukrainian Diving Federation called Lyskun’s decision “categorically unacceptable.” The Ukrainian team, it added, “selflessly fights every day for the right to represent our country on the international stage.” Parents of athletes and coaches “have stood up and are defending Ukraine.”The federation said it will seek to strip Lyskun of all awards she won and will appeal to international sports institutions to apply competition restrictions on her.Lyskun, a native of Luhansk, also cited criticism she received for her having maintained contact with Russian-speaking coaches. She said her first coach from her youth is now working in Moscow.“When she left, I spoke to her periodically and kept in touch. And when there were competitions, I saw her constantly, constantly talked to her. And now, at the last competition, I’m being criticized in front of everyone,” she said.The city of Luhansk is a regional capital of Ukraine’s eastern region of the same name which, together with the neighboring Donetsk region, forms the Donbas area, where separatists backed by Moscow sought to break away from Ukraine starting in 2014. That…
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