“This is a great loss both for the national athletics and for me personally.
I have known him since 1983.
He always helped with advice, you could turn to him on any issue.
He never had a division into his own and other people's athletes.
For him, everyone was his own.
Maybe because of this kindness, he had problems lately.
The story of the suspension over the Lysenko case seriously undermined his health.
The man was all on his nerves and lived in the hope that everything would be somehow resolved, but his heart could not stand it.
But we will all remember him.
He did not have time to convey all his experience, ”TASS quotes Privalova.
Yevgeny Zagorulko was suspended from work according to the decision of the independent investigative body World Athletics in November 2019 due to the case of Danila Lysenko, who violated anti-doping rules, whose coach was a 78-year-old specialist.
Earlier, Silnov spoke about the causes of death of the honored coach of Russia Zagorulko.