The Individual Olympic Rhythmic Gymnastics Champion, Israel Linoy Ashram, is the subject of a Denigrating message campaign on their social media account, most of them From Russia.
The ashram became the object of anger fueled by the president and rhythm coach of this country, Irina Viner, and by former gymnasts for his victory in Tokyo, which She placed Russian gymnast Dina Averina in second place.
In addition, representatives of the Russian government and its Olympic committee stirred up the fire with their protests. Thus the director of the media controlled by the Kremlim, Marguerite Simonian, was sent with statements such as “The Israeli woman has the possibility to continue to be human: return the medal” and also aimed her target against the jury: “Remember these names,” she stressed. with an image of the list of judges who scored in the individual competition. “After the massacre of our gymnasts by judges from different countries, I really regret not working for the GRU”, he also wrote in reference to the Russian military secret services, accused of having murdered dissidents of the regime of Vladimir Putin abroad.
Image posted by the Kremlin spokeswoman designating the judges.
TO judges rained down threats on social media, forcing them to cancel their accounts, and most of the more than thirty-two thousand commentaries addressed to The last Ashram post in hers are attacks on her, in many cases with anti-Semitic overtones.
Image of Israeli account with thousands of posts, mostly disparaging
Russia ceased to dominate, for the first time since the Sydney Games in 2000, the two rhythmic competitions, the individual and the ensemble., the latter won by Bulgaria. Dina Averina’s defeat was called into question in Russia by the fact that Ashram dropped the device once during his treadmill exercise. At that point, her advantage over the Russian was large enough to make up for the deduction her failure had cost her.. On previous occasions, Avernina and the Russian team have been proclaimed world or Olympic champions with similar failures, as happened in Ro 2016, where Russia edged Spain in the sets with a gang drop.
Judges outside the competition jury approved the work of their colleagues. None of this dampened the outrage in Russia over the performance of its rhythmic gymnasts in Tokyo and they attribute it to a deliberate policy against their country.
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