Curling player Sidorova: three men kicked Olympic champion Solovyov
Dmitry Soloviev. Photo: Denis Abramov / RIA Novosti
Olympic champion in figure skating Dmitry Solovyov was beaten by a company of three men. The details of the attack on the athlete were revealed by the two-time European curling champion Anna Sidorova in an interview with Match TV.
According to Sidorova, initially, the conflict arose between the girls – the curling player herself and her friends – and a group of men leaving karaoke. One of the girls asked a group of young people for a lighter, after which a verbal skirmish ensued between them. Solovyov was still in the room at that time.
When the skater went out into the street, he stood up for the girls, asking men not to talk to them in a similar tone. In response, one of the young men pushed the athlete.
“Dima fell backwards, hit the door of the establishment, this company ran into him. The girls and I began to separate them. It turned out that I and two other girls were separating the guys. More precisely, Dima was just lying when they kicked him, ”Sidorova said.
She explained that the attackers did not touch the girls, and Soloviev “got under the arm.”
The beating of the skater became known earlier, on December 21. It was reported that after the attack, he was hospitalized in the neurosurgical department of the Botkin hospital. The men who attacked the athlete were detained.
Soloviev performed in ice dancing with Ekaterina Bobrova. Together they became 2014 Olympic champions and 2018 Olympic silver medalists in team competition.
