“All the other federations won’t listen to them either.” Zhurova on Ukraine’s proposals to abolish the WFTU

Olympic champion, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Svetlana Zhurova told that international sports federations, such as World Aquatics, would not listen to Ukraine’s proposals.

On Friday, All-Russian Swimming Federation (VFTU) president, World Aquatics board member Vladimir Salnikov told that the Ukrainian side, at a meeting of the organization’s board, proposed to remove the VFTU and the Belarusian Federation. , but this proposal was rejected.

– The IOC said that it is not necessary to listen to the Ukrainian side, otherwise it will greatly politicize the sport. All the other federations will not listen to them either. They may be very indignant and so on, but nothing is likely to change. Bach immediately said that if we listened to the countries in conflict, everyone would complain and the IOC would get bogged down in the process, Zhurova told .