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Russia’s most famous track and field athlete put down her hometown, one week after her comments defending Russia’s anti-gay law caused a stir at the World Championships. Yelena Isinbayeva, two-time Olympic pole vault champion, said she would rather live in Monaco than Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad. “What can you do here, in the city, when Volgograd is simply poor?” Isinbayeva told Russian newspaper Argumenty i Fakty, according to Reuters. “The city has become awful and old. It’s deteriorated. The roads are terrible.” Isinbayeva launched a “diatribe,” according to R-Sport, criticizing her birthplace’s low pay for teachers and coaches and lack of sports achievements, save her own. Volgograd has a population around 1 million and is one of Russia’s 20 biggest cities. “I have lots of ties to Volgograd but I want to live in Monaco,” she told the newspaper, according to R-Sport. “Volgograd is a city of victories, and victories for us are associated with sport and with studying. But this all needs to be developed like in Kazan. more at NBC Olympic talk
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