Two-time Olympic champion in figure skating Maxim Trankov commented on the sale of one of the cars of BMW, presented to winners of the Games in Rio de Janeiro. The corresponding entry athlete posted on his Twitter on Friday, August 26.
“And nobody thought that given the car is not only fall under a tax “on luxury”, but the service is not cheap, but the earnings do not allow. Then sell and take the modest car! That’s all! By the way, I also sold, if that! Or do you think that all sports are paid for football, hockey or tennis?” — wrote Trankov.
For the victory at the Olympic games 2014 in Sochi the state presented the skater and other Champions SUVs Mercedes GL class.
Earlier, on August 26, it became known that the government presented to the winner of the Olympic games of 2016 BMW X6 was sold on the website auto.ru 4 670 000 rubles. According to “R-Sport”, the car belongs to a member of the national team of Russia in synchronized swimming.
Head coach of the national team in synchronized swimming Tatyana Pokrovskaya in an interview with “Sport-Express” surprised by the act of the trust and promised to find out which athlete did it. “Nothing I can say. For me it’s kind of a strange situation. Depart from this news and I will understand,” said Pokrovskaya.
Rewarding of the Russian winners and medalists of the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 25. The Champions gave a white SUV BMW X6, silver medalists received a BMW X4 and bronze BMW X3. In addition, in accordance with the decree of the government of Russia, the winners of the Games in 2016 will receive four million rubles, silver medalists — 2.5 million, bronze — 1.7 million.
