“I congratulate Dina Averina on the silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics. Our athlete showed great endurance and champion character, made elements of the highest complexity and showed an excellent performance. The whole country rooted today for the Russian gymnasts Dina and Arina Averin, admired their skills. I think that everyone who watched the rhythmic gymnastics competition today had many questions for refereeing. It is no coincidence that such a large number of protests were filed against judges from athletes from different countries. Congratulations on the first medal at the Tokyo Games to the coaches of the national team, the All-Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics and its president, Irina Viner. I wish good luck to our athletes in the group all-around, ”the press service of the Ministry of Sports quotes Matytsin as saying.
As a result of four exercises (hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon), Dina Averina scored 107.650 points and won silver at the Games.
Gold was awarded to the representative of Israel Lina Ashram (107,800 points), who dropped one of the items during her speech.
Earlier it was reported that the ROC intend to achieve an analysis of the situation with judging in rhythmic gymnastics.