Athletistic/ Others. Chairman of the Russian Federation State Duma Committee on Physical Culture and Sports Dmitry Svishchev was outraged by the decision to disqualify Russian gymnast Ivan Kulyak for a year, depriving him of his prize and his price.

“When I looked at the rules, I did not see that Latin letters were in the list of prohibited characters. Therefore, the decision to disqualify, to deprive of rewards and prize money is total anarchy. Personally “I don’t see any offensive, discriminatory and nationalistic signs in Kulyak’s act and in all the normal civilized world. At the same time, athletes of other sports can come out with political slogans, and they won’t get anything out of it” , Svishchev said.

On May 18, Ivan Kulyak was disqualified by the Disciplinary Commission of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) and the Gymnastics Ethics Foundation (GEF) for participating in the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup award ceremony in Doha, Qatar, with the Latin letter “Z” attached to sports equipment. . Kulyak won the bronze medal, which has now been vacated. The Artistic Gymnastics Federation of Russia will study the details of the athlete’s disqualification in order to be able to appeal this decision.