2023-12-09 04:11:12
This Friday, December 8 in the evening, at the edge of the Otopeni basin, near the snow-covered runways of Bucharest airport, Anastasiia Kirpichnikova, 23, could well hear the notes of her second Marseillaise soaring into the Romanian sky. Already adorned with gold on Wednesday in the 800 m during the European Swimming Championships in a 25 m pool, the Habs set the best time in the 1,500 m series in which they are the title holders. In another life.
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When she achieved the European triple (400 m, 800 m and 1,500 m) in a short swim in Kazan, in 2021, the native of Asbest, an industrial center of Siberia about a hundred kilometers from Yekaterinburg, was still listening to the national anthem of the Russian Federation. But since then, a lot of water has flowed over European geopolitics.
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