President of the All-Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Federation (VFHG) Irina Viner told that she agreed with the words of the president of the Russian Wrestling Federation (FSBR) Mikhail Mamiashvili that not allowing the strongest athletes to participate in the 2024 Games in Paris is killing the Olympic movement.
The FSBR reported on Saturday that Russian wrestlers who had received invitations from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had refused to participate in the Olympics. Mamiashvili later told that the decisions of the IOC leadership marked the beginning of the end of the Olympic movement.
— I agree that without Russia, the Olympic movement dies. Its founder Pierre de Coubertin said that the basis of the Olympic movement is faster, higher, stronger. If the strongest do not participate in it artificially, it is no longer an Olympic movement. And since Russian athletes do not participate in athletics, gymnastics, synchronized swimming and team sports, this is a violation of Olympism. The motto “Faster, higher, stronger” no longer exists. If this epigraph of the Olympic movement does not exist, then there will be no Olympic Games, “Wiener told .
The games in Paris will take place from July 26 to August 11.
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