- Dec 15, 2009
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Remember Anastasia Grishina from Russia in London 2012? Very beautiful gymnasts with lots of potential. Well a terrible terrible thing came into russian media about her family and how they stole all her money she earned with gymnastic from her.
I am copying this from tumblr where someone translated the news from the newspaper in Russia.
Nastya was underage when, after the Olympics, she received a car and prize money, so she trusted her mother with it. She had a lot of trouble with getting her mother to give her money for an apartment after getting married and having a child, and it was then when she finally found out the big amunt of money she had earned as a gymnast (salaries, prize money for competitions, cars), but of that amount, almost nothing was left, as her family had took them all. She finally bought an apartment, but her mother made her buy it in her own name or else she wouldn’t give her money to, under the excuse that this way, her husband can’t claim it, but after several fights with her mother who ended up living with them anyway, she left the apartment and her mother changed the locks. She now has no right to the apartment she bought, nor has any money. Her husband works, but most money go on renting a place and she’s looking for a job despite having an 8 month old baby.
She found out that all these years her family has been living off the money she earned and now that the money’s over, they kicked her out and her family is threatening her to shut up about it. The most heartbreaking part is her saying she knows her family never loved her, but she says she has to do this even if she’ll become even more of an outcast for them, as she needs money to raise her son and to find a place to live.
Her brother also threatened her with a knife and her mother demanded her to return the money spent on food.
Her mother was always big problem in her career as she was always involved in her training, deciding everything for her, incuding how or when she trained. She even traveled with her mother to Olympics and not with the team. And IMO she and her pressure was the reason for Grishina bad performance in London
I am copying this from tumblr where someone translated the news from the newspaper in Russia.
Nastya was underage when, after the Olympics, she received a car and prize money, so she trusted her mother with it. She had a lot of trouble with getting her mother to give her money for an apartment after getting married and having a child, and it was then when she finally found out the big amunt of money she had earned as a gymnast (salaries, prize money for competitions, cars), but of that amount, almost nothing was left, as her family had took them all. She finally bought an apartment, but her mother made her buy it in her own name or else she wouldn’t give her money to, under the excuse that this way, her husband can’t claim it, but after several fights with her mother who ended up living with them anyway, she left the apartment and her mother changed the locks. She now has no right to the apartment she bought, nor has any money. Her husband works, but most money go on renting a place and she’s looking for a job despite having an 8 month old baby.
She found out that all these years her family has been living off the money she earned and now that the money’s over, they kicked her out and her family is threatening her to shut up about it. The most heartbreaking part is her saying she knows her family never loved her, but she says she has to do this even if she’ll become even more of an outcast for them, as she needs money to raise her son and to find a place to live.
Her brother also threatened her with a knife and her mother demanded her to return the money spent on food.
Her mother was always big problem in her career as she was always involved in her training, deciding everything for her, incuding how or when she trained. She even traveled with her mother to Olympics and not with the team. And IMO she and her pressure was the reason for Grishina bad performance in London
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