The best week is the week that began with victories. In the finals of the tournament in Rome, Ukrainian swimmer Andriy Govorov set a new fly world record on the distance of 50 meters, clocking a time of 22,27 seconds. The last record belonged to the Spanish athlete and was unbreakable since 2009. More on sports victories – in reactions from DUMKA
In a comment to one of the editorials, Andriy Govorov himself emphasized that he did not train on purpose to reach this distance with the fly. The record itself, athlete called the history, where he managed to make his mark.
On this video, without registration and SMS, you can see how the world record was actually set by our swimmer.
And here is the full version of Andriy’s comments. Everybody knows English, right?
Record-breaker was also congratulated by the president of Ukraine. Petro Poroshenko reminded us that Govorov is of Crimean origins. He added that the demonstrated result is an incredible victory and a strong representation of Ukraine on the world stage.
Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine Ihor Zhdanov has also joined to felicitation. He wished the athlete to get new achievements, and most of all, to beat his own record. Well, if Andriy really wasn’t preparing on purpose to do a butterfly, then it’s quite possible that we should soon expect an updated record. We cross the fingers.
On the page of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, they were also excited by a new world record. It’s said that Andriy was personally congratulated by Serhiy Bubka, the main Olympian of the country. He wished Andriy further bright victories on the way to Tokyo-2020.
A businessman and politician Lev Partskhaladze also joined to the batch of praises by a brief congratulation.
And here we have the adviser to the Minister of Youth and Sports Pavlo Bulgak, who compared Govorov’s record with dirty football and infamous World Cup in Russia. He stressed that Ukrainian from our Crimea has just hit a record and it can’t be said about Russian athletes.
Reactions were collected and the bath-tub distance was hardly covered by Stepan the Goat
