“Our sports leaders should have made a clear decision long ago and declared: “We will only return to world sport under our flag and our anthem. » Also considering the full support of our leader during the presidential elections, what else can we talk about? “It’s not just a trip, it’s participation in an international forum with uncertain status and conditions. And the athletes who will participate in the Games will have to accept this situation,” Fetisov said, as quoted by Tsargrad.
Russian athletes were allowed to participate in the Games in France as individual neutral athletes with a special flag and musical accompaniment instead of the anthem, developed by the IOC.
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Source: Sport
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