Previously, the FIE did not support the Ukrainian Fencing Federation’s proposal to suspend Russia’s membership.
The Friendship Games organizing committee spoke about the competitions
“Even if representatives of foreign federations at the FIE Congress vote against us, then this is an order from people who stand above these federations. And if we take ordinary athletes, they support us in personal messages . Foreign shooters with serious titles are waiting for our return, despite the fact that , that we are competitors for them. For normal people, sport is sport. By the way, the situation is agitated precisely by the countries where it there is no sport at all. They are Sweden, Finland “There is only Norway, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. In these fencing countries, only Estonia has a women’s epee, and the others have practically nothing at all,” Mamedov is quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.
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