Athletistic/OI. Svetlana Zhurova, Olympic speed skating champion and State Duma deputy, believes that the decision whether athletes will go to the Olympic Games should be made by themselves. She stressed that the West hopes that Russian President Vladimir Putin will personally ban the participation of Russian athletes in the Games and then use it to his advantage.

“Maybe someone will say that I have changed my position, but in fact I insist that the situation is now completely different. Previously, there was collective responsibility for doping, while even sports that had nothing to do with it were punished. Now such sports The conditions are almost unacceptable to participate in the Olympics. However, the decision must be made by the athletes themselves. They hope that the president will impose a ban. They are waiting for this and then accuse us of totalitarianism and tyranny. But we should not “Give them such an opportunity. We are not the Soviet Union and our president announced a completely different position: everyone must make this decision for themselves,” Zhurova said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

  • Zhurova said the European Union was trying to turn Russian athletes into refugees


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