An impostor who won gold at the “ATO” competition for disabled people was exposed in Kyiv
A scandal erupted in the media around the 2018 Invictus Games participant Alexander Belobokov, who won gold and silver medals and was injured at home, and not in the ATO in Donbass, which is the main condition for participation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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According to the publication, the athlete competed at the competition as a veteran of one of the volunteer battalions, who received a serious injury during the fighting. In particular, Belobokov competed in categories that involved a hand injury, which turned out to be completely non-functional.
Alexander Belobokov was born and raised in Mariupol, was involved in powerlifting and sold sports nutrition. He has many acquaintances in the city, including those who fought (and are still fighting) in sector “M” - they studied with him, trained in the same gym, and went on vacation. According to them, Alexander Belobokov was not a volunteer, and injured his forearm when he was resting on the coast and pushing out a motor boat that had run aground. They know this from his own words.
So, Evgenia Katsaran witnessed how he was injured. According to her, on May 25, 2014, she and her boyfriend Konstantin Mironenko went on vacation to “Peschanka,” a beach located on the western outskirts of Mariupol. Belobokov with his wife, child and friends were relaxing on the beach next to them. Belobokov went for a swim; a boat passed nearby, pulling a motorized paraglider. The motor paraglider began to descend, Belobokov raised his hands, and they hit the propeller of the motor paraglider. Then he was taken to City Hospital N9, which is closest to the beach.
“At the hospital, Alexander Belobokov said that he was injured at home. Before the operation, he was given an x-ray - a description of the x-rays is in Belobokov’s medical record and extract. If Belobokov had received a mine explosion wound, he would have had many small fragments left in his body. They would be listed as “foreign bodies” in the diagnosis, medical history, and imaging descriptions. There is nothing like it there. An ordinary household injury is described, according to an orthopedic traumatologist who analyzed the medical history,” the publication writes.
The very next day after the operation, Belobokov called his friend, powerlifter Alexander Glushchenko, who trained with him in the same gym. He told him what happened and complained that his sports career was over.
He told the same thing to three other trainers he knew. Already on June 7, Belobokov went on a picnic with friends. In July, he had surgery in Donetsk, and then went there for dressings. By this point, the referendum on self-determination of the DPR had already been held for several months, that is, Ukraine no longer controlled Donetsk.
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