Sharapova to carry Russian flag in London 2012

Published time: June 12, 2012 14:03
Edited time: June 12, 2012 18:05
Russia's Maria Sharapova (AFP Photo/Pascal Guyot)

An honor well-deserved. World’s top female tennis player, Maria Sharapova, is going to be Team Russia’s flag-bearer at the opening of the London Olympics.

­“We’ve reached an agreement with Sharapova on the issue after Saturday’s final at Roland Garros,” Shalil Tarpischev, Russia’s Fed Cup coach, told Sport-Express newspaper.

Maria defeated Sara Errani of Italy in the French Open final, becoming the first Russian to bag all four Grand Slam titles.

The Roland Garros triumph allowed the 25-year-old to regain the World No.1 spot, which she previously owned back in 2005 as a teenager.

Sharapova has confessed that competing at the Olympics has always been her dream, as she plans to fully concentrate on preparations for London 2012 after Wimbledon.

Basketball star, Andrey Kirilenko carried the country’s tricolor at the previous Summer Games' opening ceremony in Beijing 2008.

Comments (9)

sam (unregistered) 20.06.2012 10:36

I love this lady and wish the best for the Russian team. Love you Sharapova.

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The Soft Butterfly Stroke (unregistered) 13.06.2012 10:54

       Go girl! She deserved it! She epidomises the indomitable Russian Spirit of guts and determination!

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gewangew 13.06.2012 02:35

Very bad and very stupid choice (unregistered) wrote in #3
this was most clearly very badly thought choice and I think Russia will not do well in the London games because this choice speaks deeper problem with Russia’s corrupted sport authorities. One of the less known, young athletes should have been chosen to carry the Russian flag during the opening of the London not Sharapova. I can say 100% she will not win the Gold Metal for Russia—that much I am certain.
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The best psychology to assume here is to return to the fact, that US "wonderful" (a commercial fluttering gutter of shallow water.) as it appears, is nothing more than an Englandisch slavema stery- and slave-land (no other human relationship possible). Its "wonder" is in fact a financial despotic regime built on the enslavement (of Africans), genocide (of natives, hence each existent "native" is fake, product of Englandisch rape and intercourse, and hence Englisch surname), hatred (of Latinos) and exploitation (of all other non-Englisch races, Asians, Arabs and so on). Love has been amoked since arrival of the Englandisch and raped there, displayed in the cheapest and shoddiest Englisch form, such that there is no longer real love there. Best to let such a "country" make money for your material needs but never feel "home" there. There is no way Englandisch US will not be "retributed" and "swamped" and "destroyed". Residing there and getting tinted, or perhaps more vividly "boarding onto a sinking ship" is no wise choice or even a moderately intelligent one.   Russia will be a glorious federation. What more suitable person there is than a native Siberian to lead the banner?

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