A teenage volleyball player from Kazakhstan is coming under fire, but it’s not because of her skills. It’s because of her looks. Critics say Sabina Altynbekova, 17, is so beautiful that it’s a distraction to the sport. Even the athlete’s own coach says his team is increasingly about one player, at least as far as the fans are concerned.
“It is impossible to work like this,” Nurlan Sadikov, coach of the nation’s under-19 team, told Tengrin News in a quote translated by the Daily Mail. “The crowd behaves like there isonly one player at the championship.”Continue..
