we wrote about Russian athletes and The witcher Super fan Vitalina Batsarashkina in 2016 when she won a silver medal over 10m Air pistol at the Rio Olympics. She’s right back at this year’s games Witcher Gang, only this time she won gold.
Of course we didn’t write about it Batsarashkina Just because she is one Witcher Fan. Most of the athletes at these games become fans of some some kind of video game, and many are likely obsessed with everything Pokémon to Skyrim to League of Legends.
What sets Batsarashkina a part is that really she? competes in it Wear event Witcher things. In 2016 it was a Witcher Medallion hangs from her pants and some Witcher Illustrations on her shooting glasses, and she wears what it looks like the same charm 2021, only this time the Witcher Locket was around her neck.
I joked last time that “If someone on earth is happier with silver than gold, then it becomes one Witcher Fan” But really, she’s an athlete, of course gold is better, so congratulations!
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She defeated the Bulgarian Antoaneta Kostadinova, who won silver, and China Jiang Ranxin, who took home the bronze. they can see the video of the final on the ABC website.
Batsarashkina’s gold was the first gold medal for the “ROC” –the Russian Olympic Committee – at the Tokyo Games, which, while made up of a number of Russian athletes, technically does not represent Russia because, as NBC sums up here, quite far-reaching by some systematic doping at international sporting events:
Russia has received a two-year ban on its state-sponsored doping program from the World Anti-Doping Agency. No athlete can represent Russia at the Olympic Games, Paralympics or World Championships between December 17, 2020 and December 17, 2022.
The ban was originally designed for four years, but the court of arbitration for sports reduced for two years. The state sponsored doping program was unveiled in 2016 and featured at least 15 medalists from the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
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