Russian Police Not Taking Any Crap From Nastia Liukin

Alex B.
Ride The Pine
Published in
1 min readFeb 5, 2014

Right now, former Olympic gold-medalist Nastia Liukin is in Sochi covering the Olympic Games for NBC. Liukin was snapping pictures in front of an Olympic building, when she was confronted by Russian police. They “yelled” at her for standing on the grass and the moment was captured and Tweeted out by Liukin.

Here is Liukin a few seconds prior, taking the picture that got her in trouble.

I mean, I don’t blame Russia in this one. Luikin was born in Moscow and holds dual-Citizenship in the United States. She could’ve represented Russia in those 2008 Olympics…but she didn’t.

You keep your grass nice, Russia. We’ll keep the Gold.

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