Denis Pankratov, 2-time Olympic champion, to @sovsport:
"USSR has been cheating at the Olympics since the 1950s. We violate all laws possible. We look for all loopholes, not quite legal ones, we furnish fake medical records. The overreaching principle is: lie, deceive, falsify.."
"USSR has been cheating at the Olympics since the 1950s. We violate all laws possible. We look for all loopholes, not quite legal ones, we furnish fake medical records. The overreaching principle is: lie, deceive, falsify.."
@sovsport "And the world community is still asking itself, "Should we ban them or not? Maybe, [Russia] will come to its senses? Maybe there is one normal person there? When will the Russians understand?" They let a pig to sit at the table, so the pig put its feet on it..."
@sovsport "When will we get that you can't behave like this? This is some kind of Satan's ball in hell that's going on here now. The world community is trying to bring us back to earth, but we keep lying and obstructing. We are doing everything to make them kick us out..."
@sovsport "They should've started the dance in the 50s... [The Olympics] were for amateurs, but we put out our "red machine" against college students. Fetisov and his guys were playing against kids! Our sports were always dishonest. We always try to put up elite troops against children..."
@sovsport "We are not the most athletic nation. We know it very well. So we compete against those who aren't our equals... Again, since the 1950s we have been lying, falsifying, behaving inappropriately towards the rest of the world. At some point they had to tell us to stop..."
