Coach Sergey Epishin commented on the new film by German TV channel ARD about doping in Russia. As said the coach in an interview with radio “Star”, he never met with a new informant of the channel – the Russian athlete Andrey Dmitriev.
“The fact that for me, it is, of course, of course, complete nonsense, I don’t know where and how he was able to invent it all. I never knew him personally, I never knew the existence of this athlete Andrey Dmitriev. In the first film, Hyo Seppelt Stepanova in this role were (informant), I was there too, mentioned in passing, so, they decided to try and make this as much information as possible,” said Yepishin.
He added that this film was released in advance of the meeting for the restoration of Russia’s membership in the international Federation of athletics.
“They are on the third and fourth time the same facts trying to get rid of and thought of what else could come up with this. This movie is specially made for the Commission of the IAAF, which today will confer with our leadership. This is done in order to prevent the Russian athletes for competition, and all the rest of his ranting about the truth, about purity of the sport is just a blatant lie,” said the coach.
“Here are these facts that he naprivodili in this film about me would be enough for it, so I went to court”, – said Epishin.
Earlier, the German TV station ARD has published a new film by German TV channel ARD. All substantial part of the film is limited to an interview with the head of the anti-doping edition of the channel , Hyo seppelt the Russian athlete Andrey Dmitriev, which was held in Alma-ATA.
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