“I received such an offer, I thought for a very long time and eventually decided to agree. The fact is that I had an injury - my shoulder hurt, there were no competitive results. For a long time I didn’t play, they stopped calling me to the Russian national team. And the head of the Georgian Gymnastics Federation called my trainer and asked if I could make this proposal, ”the athlete quoted Evening Moscow as saying.
According to Kharenkova, in the near future she will try to win a license for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
“Of course, I would like to speak for Russia - after all, my native country. But once you have given such a chance, you need to use it, ”she added.
Earlier it was reported that the Russian gymnast Kharenkova will play for the Georgian team.