Down-the-line.com/Fencing. 2008 Olympic champion, six-time world champion and eight-time European saber fencing champion Olga Kharlan says the International Fencing Federation (FIE) has banned teams from other countries from wearing Ukrainian symbols during of the Women’s Foil Grand Prix in South Korea.
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In particular, foil fencers from the United States used the tracks with yellow and blue stripes as a sign of disagreement with the Russians’ return to competition and solidarity with Ukraine, but FIE representatives forced them to withdraw the stripes and banned any Ukrainian symbol. on the uniform.
After the return of the Russians and Belarusians to the international scene, Germany refused to host the Grand Prix stage, and it is also possible to cancel the stage in Poland.
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