Olympic champion Melnikova was criticized due to complaints about poor nutrition

Olympic champion in artistic gymnastics, 23-year-old Angelina Melnikova, who won gold at the 2020 Olympics in the team championship, bronze at the Tokyo Games in the individual all-around and floor exercise, and silver at the 2016 Olympics in the team championship, complained about poor nutrition at the sports facility “ Lake Krugloye” on its page on one of the social networks. Her words provoked criticism from the senior coach of the Russian artistic gymnastics team, Valentina Rodionenko, whose comment leads Portal Sport24.

“In recent days there has been nothing to eat at all; during the time of Covid, both the quality of food and its diversity in general have dropped greatly,” Melnikova wrote on a social network, accompanying her words with photographs from the canteen of the sports center. “I have to survive on vegetables, although I doubt that boiled cabbage is enough for my muscles to recover.” How sad, how sad… Bring back the past.”

Commenting on these words, Rodionenko indicated that another 250 people eat in the same canteen and no one has any complaints. According to the famous coach, Melnikova is exaggerating. “Moreover, Angelina has such requests that it feels like we have not a training base, but a restaurant,” Rodionenko was indignant. “This will never happen here!” At the same time, she added that there are still certain complaints about the nutrition, but everything is quickly corrected. The coach stated that the gymnast has “strange requests” and that Melnikova behaves “as if she were training alone here.” According to Rodionenko, “Melnikova’s words need to be divided in half.”