any type of discrimination mr le guen is let me get it straight so as a former olympian you would actually. while come the united states being denied a chance to host the two thousand and twenty four olympic games because of these sodomy books that exist and taxes in alabama and some other states as well sure i mean you know. they not be held in alabama you know because you know the united states is so big you know we have all of these different states i mean and we have very accepting states you know i don't i don't lump them in as you know this is one question i don't have to live in the united states i live in california that's a very interesting answer if i could ask you one more question on politics i know that you describe yourself as a known political person but on the eve of sorts shell lympics president obama said that he has no. patience for countries discriminating against gays and lesbians and that's despite all those sodomy laws that the united states itself has on books but i wonder why do you think politicians are so eager to join the l.g. b t cause now because you know in r

marriage or you know legislating love and that's all it is is you know is unconstitutional well mr le guen is just to put things into perspective all those legislative progress notwithstanding according to the f.b.i. in two thousand and twelve around thirteen hundred crimes motivated by homophobe ever registered in the united states thirteen hundred crimes in russia in the same period of time just twelve were unregistered so you may dispute the russian figures they were compiled by one of the leading watchdogs here in the country nongovernmental watchdogs but you know crimes motivated by homophobia in russia compared to. in the united states don't you think that you know the we may have a bit skewed picture here and the station in russia may not be ask ridiculous as it is usually described at least compared to the united states here. i feel that i take issue with that because in order to you know to register and a hate crime then you have to feel you know that you have support behind you i think that. a lot of times those statistics aren't quite accurate because people are afraid to use to