Down-the-line.com / Artistic Gymnastics. Russian gymnast, Olympic all-around team champion Artur Dalaloyan has commented on Ukrainian gymnast Ilya Kovtun’s decision to boycott the Final Six of the Italian Club Championship. Earlier it became known that Dalaloyan will be performing at the tournament. Kovtun refused to participate, as he did not want to compete with the Russian.

Ukrainian gymnast Kovtun boycotted competitions in Italy because of Russian participation

“To be honest, I just heard about it. Of course, I was wondering if this club would make it to the final. I was told that they preferred to play in the German Bundesliga. I didn’t know I was in somehow involved or related to it. My absolutely equal and calm attitude about it, it makes absolutely no difference to me, because of me (Kovtun refused) or not because of me. I come to do my job, and the rest doesn’t really matter. I don’t want to comment on that,” RIA Novosti quotes Dalaloyan.