ロシアの走り高跳び女王、関係者の責任追及「聞きたいこと山ほど」

【モスクワＡＦＰ＝時事】ロシアに対して4年間の国際スポーツ大会出場禁止の処分が下されたことについて、同国トップ選手の一人で、世界陸上の女子走り高跳びを3連覇しているマリア・ラシツケネが、国内スポーツ関係者の責任を追及している。（写真は陸上女子走り高跳びのマリア・ラシツケネ）
　以前からロシアのスポーツ当局に対して批判的だったラシツケネは、スポーツ系ウェブサイトのＣｈａｍｐｉｏｎａｔ．ｃｏｍに公開書簡を投稿し、国家ぐるみの薬物スキャンダルと、自身がロシアの選手として大会に出場できない責任を取った人はいるのかと訴えた。
　ラシツケネは、２０１６年のリオデジャネイロ五輪はこの問題で出られず、２０２０年東京五輪に出場するためロシアを離れた。「２０１５年末、私のもとからロシア国旗が奪われた」と話す２６歳は、自身を「聞きたいことが山ほどあるアスリート」と呼び、こう訴えた。
　「内部調査は行われたのか。誰か処分は受けたのか」「なぜロシア陸上界がいまだに禁止薬物を使い、ドーピングで捕まった選手のコーチが仕事を続け、責任ある立場の人間が公式文書の改ざんを続けているのか」
　世界反ドーピング機関（ＷＡＤＡ）は９日、薬物検査のデータを組織的に操作していたとして、東京五輪や２０２２年サッカーＷ杯カタール大会など、主要な国際大会からロシアを４年間締め出すことを決めた。
　２０１５年と２０１７年、２０１９年の世界陸上で３連覇しているラシツケネは、以前からロシア陸上競技連盟会長の辞任を求めている。中立の立場での出場は精神的につらいと話しており、国籍を変えてはどうかとＳＮＳで提案するファンもいるが、本人は新たなパスポートを取得する予定はないと答えている。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2019/12/12-08:40）

One of Russia's top athletes, three-time world champion high jumper Mariya Lasitskene, on Tuesday called sports officials to account after her country was banned for four years from international competition.
In her open letter published by Championat.com sports website, Lasitskene, a longtime critic of Russian sports officials, demanded to know who has been punished over the country's doping scandal and the fact that she cannot compete under the Russian flag.
Lasitskene missed the 2016 Rio Olympics because of the doping crisis and had threatened to leave Russia so as not to miss the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.
The Russian flag was taken from me at the end of 2015, the 26-year-old wrote, calling herself an athlete who has a lot of questions.
Have we done an internal investigation? Who was punished? Lasitskene said.
Why is our athletics still using banned substances, and coaches of athletes caught doping are still working while officials in charge are falsifying official documents?
The World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday banned Russia for four years from major global sporting events including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar over manipulated doping data, prompting an angry response from President Vladimir Putin.
Many Russian officials have blamed anti-Russian hysteria for the ban.
Lasitskene, who hails from the Russian Caucasus and won gold at the 2015, 2017 and the 2019 World Championships, has previously called on the head of Russia's Athletics Federation to resign.
She has also complained that it was psychologically hard to compete as a neutral.
Some of her supporters have suggested on Instagram that she quit Russia and take up a different citizenship, but Lasitskene on Monday said she did not plan to obtain a new passport.
She said Russian athletics was in poor shape and lamented that nobody was being held accountable.
I'd like to know, what have the sports ministry and the Russian Olympic Committee done to protect me personally? she said.
You created so many commissions but I cannot find any reports of their accomplishments, she added.
Who is at fault? And who will return to me what I have lost?