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Not born there: the Ukrainian mass media hounded his gold medal

Ukrainian gymnast Oleg Vernaeve won the gold medal at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, was subjected to this bullying by the media of Ukraine, reports TV channel “Zvezda”.

Не там родился: украинские СМИ затравили своего же золотого медалистаThe vernaeve was a native of Donbass, and his training for the Olympic
the games began in Donetsk, Ukrainian media put
it the stigma of “separatist”

The fact that the Vernaeve was a native of Donbass, and his training for the Olympic games began in Donetsk.

After the athlete won the honorary title, the Ukrainian media decided to check his social media accounts. Finding that the Vernaeve signed on the Pro-Russian community, workers of media sphere of Ukraine to immediately put on the athlete is the stigma of “separatist”.

In the final performance on the parallel bars at the international competition in Brazil Vernaeve managed to get around the American Danell Leyva and the Russians David Belyavskiy, who received bronze.

It is reported that Oleg Verniaiev was born in 1993 in Donetsk. In Kiev, the athlete moved four years ago, when I started to prepare for the Olympics.

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