Each athlete must decide independently whether to accept the eligibility requirements, which may be offered by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to participate in the Paris Olympics, but they cannot be accepted at the state level. , said the silver medalist on Match. Television Taekwondo Olympic medalist Natalia Ivanova.
The media reported that the IOC took the conditions for training a refugee team as the basis for the principle of admitting Russian athletes to the 2024 Games in Paris. In March, the IOC said the decision on Russian participation in the Olympics would be made no earlier than a year before the start of competition. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called the possible admission of Russians under the terms of the “team of refugees” a project of the American special services.
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If we talk about the words of Zakharova. In psychology, there is the concept of the Overton window. The fact that Western political technologists have led and are leading our athletes to this… First a performance without anthems and flags, then the signing of statements in which to refuse to support the events. Now it is already a team of refugees.
Our athletes are starting to get along internally. I can’t speak for everyone, but at the state level, we can’t agree to these terms.
My father studied in the Donbass, in Gorlovka, worked as a blacksmith all his life, worried about Russia. If I signed the documents and went to the Olympics to fulfill my dream and left Russia, he wouldn’t stop loving me, but it would be a blow to him. He would never understand me. It cannot be said that we have to replace the motherland if we want to realize the dream, ”Ivanova said on the air of the show“ There is a theme! on MatchTV.
The Paris Olympic Games will take place from July 26 to August 11, 2024.
Source : MatchTV
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