After the European adult figure skating and ice dance championships in February, in which the Hungarian National Skating Association (MOKSZ) fielded only one athlete born in Hungary, there is no longer a single Hungarian-born athlete in the national team at the junior world championships that started in Canada on Monday, writes the article 24.hu.
The article paints a shocking picture of the domestic conditions of the sport. As it turns out, three competitors born in Russia and one in France represent our country.
According to the website of the Canadian competition, Hungary is represented by Maya Benkiewicz/Mark Shapiro in ice dance. Hungarian citizen Polina Dzumanyyazova is running in Hungarian colors.
None of the four figure skaters listed speaks Hungarian.
According to the article, MOKSZ used state tax forints to send foreign coaches from Russia and France to the World Cup alongside the athletes skating in Hungarian colors, with the exception of Júlia Sebestyén.
There are also talented Hungarian competitors, for example in the women’s category, but the presidency of the sport, led by Fidesz politician Lajos Kósa since 2011, for some reason favored the girl born in Moscow, not the Hungarian one, and approved her entry.
The “Hungarians” of the sport do not understand all this, tempers are boiling, the parents wrote several letters to the management of MOKSZ, in which they included Júlia Sebestyén and the Armenian-Russian professional leaders, the sports director of the department Gurgen Vardanjan and his wife, the national team captain Jeranjak Ipakan was also complained about.
According to the newspaper, in the midst of unfavorable conditions, all the top Hungarian competitors have already left the association of our last European champion, Sebestyén KSE.
24.hu understands that on February 16, the MOKSZ presidency dealt with the situation, the reality of the letters of the parents complaining about all kinds of humiliation and punishments, and according to our information, they also decided on the future of the Armenian coaching pair.
For now, the Hungarian National Skating Association is silent about this meeting, and what it costs Hungarian taxpayers to travel, honorarium, and use of the ice for the many Russian athletes and their coaches, although managing director Orsolya Váradi acknowledged the legitimacy of 24.hu’s data request two weeks later, but he sent the answer that because of it
its fulfillment entails a disproportionate use of the labor resources necessary for the performance of the basic activities of the body performing public duties, the MOKSZ wishes to exercise its 15-day extension right granted by law.
