The Olympics in Rio turned out to be one of the mostscandalous for the Russian team. Doping revelations served as an excuse for excluding the entire national track and field team from the competition. The only sportswoman admitted before the start was Daria Klishina (Russia). Athletics did not know before such precedents. Interest to the young athlete broke out after that with renewed vigor.
Difficult choice of the athlete's daughter
In 1991, Daria Klishina was born in Tver.Athletics was an occupation devoted to her father's life. Dasha was a very active child. She was engaged in dancing, volleyball. Not everyone saw that the main vocation of such a versatile child, as Daria Klishina - athletics. Biography athlete was determined by the advice of his father. She decided to try her hand at several disciplines. Daria was throwing a nucleus, jumping, running. As a result, the most promising results were shown in the long jump.
At the age of 13, a promising girl was taken to Moscow, where she began studying at the Olympic Reserve School.
Talented junior
From the very beginning of the junior career confidentlyDarya Klishina declared herself. Athletics became the main occupation, on which she concentrated her attention. In 2007 she became the first in the world among athletes who did not reach the age of 17. Two years later Klishina repeated success at the championship of the planet already in juniors.
Breakthrough for Daria was 2011. She won a number of victories at the European Youth Championship, repeated success already in the adult championship.
Year of records and failures
During the entire 2011 season, stable resultsshe showed Daria Klishina. Athletics seemed to have acquired a new bright star. Jumping regularly came in the number of winners of the "Diamond League", where, as a rule, second only to the American Britney Reese.
Daria Klishina was among the favorites already onthe adult world championship 2011. Her main rival was Britney Reese, who has repeatedly beat her on the stages of the Diamond League. But by this time, a decline of the sports form of the Russian jumper has come. Despite the modest results shown by the rest of the athletes in the final, Daria Klishina remained far behind the draw.
She performed much better in the championshipRussia, jumping at 6.82 m, but this tournament was qualifying for the 2012 Olympic Games, and her rivals approached him in their best form. As a result, Daria remained only the fifth and did not go to London.
One of the most beautiful female athletes in the world
The results, which showed Klishina in 2011, made her pay attention to both experts and fans. Being also a very beautiful girl, she attracts all media and television cameras.
At the World Championships in Daegu during the warm-upparticipants in the finals on jumps in length, almost all the broadcast time Korean filmmakers paid to Daria. How she consults with the coach, how she warms up, how she takes off the training suit.
In addition, back in 2010, according to the vote in the Russian segment of the Internet, it was Daria Klishina who was chosen the most attractive athlete of the country.
Moving to the USA
Excessive sensation in the press, close attentionfans - all this can interfere with the normal training of even the most persistent athlete. Klishina Darya Igorevna was no exception. Jumping in length - not the most rating and illuminated by TV sports, but the young athlete has become more difficult to train because of excessive hype around her appearance.
The girl signed a contract with the famous in the worldsport marketing agency IMG, whose clients were many famous Russian athletes. After that, her agent began to monitor the maximum number of questions from journalists. In 2013 she made a difficult decision about moving to the United States. There in the city of Bradenton (Florida), she trains to this day.
Getting higher education in a direction"Sports Management", Daria Klishina (sport - athletics) participated in the Universiade 2013 and won a gold medal. No longer jumping for a mark of seven meters, however, the athlete again began to win at major tournaments. In 2014, she won the national championship with a score of 6.90 m. In the same season, Daria became the third at the European Championships.
The main victory in the pre-Olympic season was the gold of the Russian Championship in 2016. It was at this tournament that athletes were selected to participate in the Games in Rio.
Doping scandals with Russian track and field athletics
However, in June of 2016 a scandal broke out,associated with the use of doping drugs by Russian athletes. After the McLaren report, the IOC, in the person of President Thomas Bach, gave the right to admit athletes from Russia to the Olympic Games to individual federations by sport. IAAF in June 2016 removed from participating in the competition the entire national team. Only Daria Klishina, a long time trained in the US, was not associated with the Russian anti-doping services. Only one of them met the selection criteria for the Games in Rio. It was decided to admit Daria to competitions under the flag of the IOC.
In response, the athlete thanked the IAAF for allowing her to take part in the main tournament of the year.
So it was in the middle of a grand scandalDaria Klishina. Athletics is not limited to performances of athletes in the arenas. However, Thomas Bach later allowed to represent the Russian woman is their national team. August 13, Daria faced new challenges. Suddenly, she was denied admission to the Olympics because of additional circumstances in the ill-fated report of McLaren. Only after the appeal to the sports arbitration court, Klishina finally got the right to participate in her main competitions in life.
However, the strong pressure from the fans,numerous proceedings and lawsuits knocked the athlete out of the rut, and she unsuccessfully performed her attempts on the track for jumping, not even hitting the finalists.
Personal life
Jumper in length Daria Klishina always turns out to bein the center of attention due to its appearance. The personal life of such people is always in sight. While she is not married, however, there were persistent rumors of her relationship with the star of world hockey, Evgeni Malkin.
Often, after a bright start at the junior level, athletes have a recession in their adult careers. However, Daria Klishina is only 25, and the fans have the right to expect serious victories from her.
