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Russian athletes that have changed nationalities


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19 minutes ago, intoronto said:

I think she purchased citizenship well before the war.

Hard to tell nowadays :lol:

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Seven Russian athletes have appeared in Syria National team squad at Pan Arab Games and some of them have changed names and birthdays. Russian officials in federations claimed they even didn't know about it. Russian ministry of sport claimed that only two of them Milana Mugu (Mrad) (judo) and Alexandra Maximova (gymnastics) changed their citizenship officially and the information about the others on the official Games website is a mistake.

https://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/dalniyles/3173691.html#supertop

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2 hours ago, Dmitry said:

Nikita Klevchenya (Speed Skating) will compete for :wKAZ: too. 

Judging by his results, I doubt he'll ever really be visible internationally, but the name is very interesting! Son of? If so, that would explain the Kazakhstan move as well, I believe the big Klevchenya has been Kazakhstan's coach at least for a while.

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On 7/17/2023 at 8:36 PM, heywoodu said:

Judging by his results, I doubt he'll ever really be visible internationally, but the name is very interesting! Son of? If so, that would explain the Kazakhstan move as well, I believe the big Klevchenya has been Kazakhstan's coach at least for a while.

Yes, he is the son and the big Klevchenya is training Golubeva and Silaeva in Kazakhstan too.

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4 hours ago, Dmitry said:

Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin (figure skating) will compete for :GEO since the new season.

Lol, rumors was they would represent :USA. Guess that would have been too much a betrayal for Eteri’s daughter.

 

(Davis is an American citizen, Smolkin has a green card and they both live in the US. Their link to Georgia is… one of Davis’ grandparenrs is from there.

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