Is she still a Russian citizen? She became one in 2008 to play on the Russian Olympic Women’s Team. To me that’s a low thing to do.
Ditto. I think very little of people who change their allegiance to their country for something like that. I can't imagine rejecting my citizenship just to play on some athletic team.
What a slap in the face, especially to the members of the 72 Men's Olympic team.
That’s a very common thing in the Olympics. Italy in particular hands out citizenship to great-grandchildren of people who left in order to build their squads. Italian hockey and baseball teams in international tournaments are filled with Americans and Canadians of Italian origin who generally don’t speak the language and have never been there.