Sports Minister of Tatarstan Leonov: “The question of the admission of athletes is now more important than the status of the postponed debut of the World Aquatics”

Sports Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Vladimir Leonov told that at present the issue of allowing Russian athletes to participate in international competitions is more important than the status of the postponed tournaments of the International Swimming Federation (World Aquatics) of Kazan. .

World Aquatics, in the context of the situation in Ukraine, moved two world championships from Kazan to other countries. As All-Russian Swimming Federation President Vladimir Salnikov told earlier, both of these tournaments are in a postponed status.

— Is there any information on the status of these World Aquatics tournaments?

— There is no change on this and no additional information from World Aquatics on this. First of all, we hope that our athletes will be allowed to participate in international competitions. Unfortunately, the Fukuoka World Cup will take place without us. We are awaiting decisions on the admission of athletes, this is now more important. There is one year left before the Paris Games, all our “waterfowl”, and it is a very large community, are waiting for a decision. We missed international departures. We organized competitions for them last year and this year, but it is very difficult to find an alternative to the biggest tournaments,” Leonov told .