Your translator is a fan of this truly remarkable athlete. Enjoy this video with the Anthem!
Ria.ru/sport
Translated from Russian by Tom Winter, July 22, 2016
MOSCOW, July 21 – R-Sport. Let all these pseudo-pure foreign athletes sigh with relief and win their pseudo-gold medals at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in the absence of the Russian athletes, wrote Yelena Isinbayeva in her instagram account.
Isinbayeva is a double Olympic champion in the pole vault.
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On Thursday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected an appeal by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), and 68 Russian athletes, and upheld the exclusion of the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF).
“There was a hope, but nope* … Let all these pseudo-pure foreign athletes sigh with relief and win their pseudo-gold medals in our absence. They always feared (our) strength,” wrote the Russian woman.
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*Была, да сплыла надежда” The original is an idiomatic rhyming set-phrase. There was hope, but it spilled is more literal but doesn’t swing.