Evening Urgant with Alina Kabaeva. Fashion failure of Alina Kabaeva at Ivan Urgant

Everything is known, and nothing is known. An athlete, a champion, a deputy - she is always in sight, but her personal life is shrouded in mystery. No one knows for sure what is true and what is fiction in the various information that circulates on the Internet, but for several years now the public has been interested in two of the most important topics - “Kabaeva and Putin” and “Alina Kabaeva and children.”

Rumors and conversations provoke increased interest in Alina Kabaeva, whom many consider the unofficial “first lady” of Russia. Whether this is true or not, no one has yet been able to find out for sure, but close public attention to former gymnast obliges her to look “at her best.”

Internet users criticized Alina Kabaeva's outfit

Last Friday Alina Kabaeva visited the studio. Today, the former athlete heads the National Media Group holding company, but appears on television extremely rarely, especially in programs of the Evening Urgant format.

The fact that Alina Kabaeva would appear in “Evening Urgant” became known a few days in advance, so viewers were looking forward to her “coming out.”

In a studio Olympic champion reported last news about her work, talked about her feelings about the fact that gymnastics may be excluded from Olympic events sports, spoke about her relationship with former coach Irina Viner...

However, the audience was most interested in appearance Kabaeva. Judging by the discussions online, the chosen outfit really let the athlete down. Internet users on all the news portals that reported on Alina’s appearance in the Evening Urgant studio had heated discussions about what she was wearing for the broadcast.

Alina Kabaeva and Ivan Urgant

Alina Kabaeva, the Olympic champion and now the chairman of the board of directors of the National Media Group holding and the board of directors of the Sport Express Publishing House, visited Ivan Urgant on Channel One. The reason for her visit to the air of "Evening Urgant" was the recent award ceremony " Best Athlete 25th Anniversary", which was established by the newspaper "Sport-Express" in honor of its anniversary. The laureates were chosen by the readers of the publication.

The guest of the program spoke about her work as a media manager and answered the question of whether she is a tough leader.

I think not, but for some, maybe yes. As a sports person, I love professionalism. Sometimes you can be tough.

Alina Kabaeva admitted.

The host asked the guest to remember the beginning of her journey in big sport and working with coach Irina Viner-Usmanova. The multiple champion confirmed that she was in awe of her. And she joked that she still feels it:

When we are sitting at the table and I reach for bread, I look at her so that she doesn’t scold me for it. We were afraid of her, respected her, because she is a strict coach, but she gets results. But when you leave the hall, she is your best friend,

Alina said about her mentor in rhythmic gymnastics.

The winner of 15 European Championship gold medals and many other awards commented on the situation around Russian athletes at the 2016 Olympics in Rio and expressed concern that rhythmic gymnastics in the future may be excluded from the list of competitive disciplines or the level of difficulty of programs may be lowered, because Russian gymnasts difficult to compete.

In rhythmic gymnastics we are told that we need to stop because other countries can’t keep up with us. I am very worried that our sport will not be removed from Olympic program. If the rules change and you just need to dance and do only nine elements, then rhythmic gymnastics will become uninteresting. Or it will be removed and, for example, acrobatics will be included, which is not currently included in the Olympic program.

The champion said.

It is worth noting that Western journalists are watching Alina Kabaeva no less closely than the viewers of the last broadcast of “Evening Urgant” did. Thus, The Sun and Daily Mail newspapers recently published photographs of the Russian champion taken during a show in the Moscow Megasport palace. Loud headlines appeared due to the fact that Kabaeva was sitting on the podium not alone, but with a boy who looked to be about ten years old. Western journalists suggested that the former athlete, and now the chairman of the board of directors of several large corporations, came to the event with her son. Western journalists noticed that the boy looked like the President of the Russian Federation.