Russian Olympic Champion Isinbayeva Returns to the International Olympic Committee

Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia has announced that she plans to resume her work on the International Olympic Committee Athletes’ Committee next September.

“Today I can happily announce that in September 2023 I will resume my international activities, since the organization has no doubts about me, and I am not subject to any articles or sanctions,” Yelena Isinbayeva wrote on the VKontakte social network. .

Isinbayeva, 41, has been a member of the International Olympic Committee’s Athletes’ Committee since 2016.

And Elena Isinbaeva even earlier decided to move to live in the Canary Islands in Spain.

El Digital Sur reported that the former pole vault star lives in a luxury complex on the island of Tenerife, Spain.

First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Svetlana Yurova was surprised by the information that Elena Isinbayeva had moved to Spain, saying: moving if I had not heard from Elena herself. According to the Russian newspaper Gazeta.Ru.

Yelena Isinbayeva is one of the brightest athletes who won two gold medals at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, as well as won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, won the World Outdoor Championships three times and four times world indoor champion who broke 28 world records in pole vault.

Source: russian.rt.com

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