
2001年,俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京向阿丽娜·卡巴耶娃献花。她被传是其长期情妇及多个孩子的母亲。
This is one of their slightly later meetings lol. The woman in the background smiling is Kabaeva's rhythmic gymnastics coach, Irina Viner. Kabaeva won the all around gold in rhythmic in the 2004 Olympics. Svetlana Khorkina, the woman to her left with the disgusted look, won silver in artistic gymnastics. Kabaeva actually ousted Viner a few months ago and took over the Russian rhythmic program. Viner has had an iron grip on the program for decades and is married to a Russian oligarch who is friends with Putin. Viner is notoriously abusive, she produced a documentary that was basically just her screaming and verbally abusing her gymnasts for an hour. If that's what she's willing to show, what isn't she? Viner has paired up many of her gymnasts with Russian oligarch, pretty much as a reward for winning medals. She sucks, but so does Kabaeva. Thankfully the Russians are still banned from international competitions *for now* (though they keep letting Russians in as "neutral athletes", total horse shit) Oh and Svetlana Khorkina is a POS too. She and Kabaeva were in the Duma together, Russian parliament. I'll attach a photo of that in a reply since I can only add one. Now she is standing by Putin and supporting the genocide of Ukrainians.

I forgot I had this GIF saved. This was 1996 after she fell on bars during the AA. One armed salute 🫡 tbf she wasn't the only Russian guilty of this, but BS that they deducted Simone for her salute but not this






That pose did it for Putin lol
