The president of the World Athletics Federation, Sebastian Coe, has long been Russophobic, after his statement on the participation of Russians in the 2024 Games in Paris. Angelique Sidorova has decided to end her career, says presenter and commentator Dmitry Guberniev .
On Friday, the IOC announced it would allow Russian and Belarusian athletes who successfully qualified for the 2024 Olympics to have neutral status as individual athletes. Coe, in turn, said that the priority for the admission of Russians and Belarusians belongs to the international federations.
2020 Olympic pole vault silver medalist Sidorova, 32, announced her retirement on Saturday.
— Angelica is, of course, an athletic star. She played a lot of sport and will no longer be able to participate in the Olympic Games. Unfortunately, many will follow his example. She must now build a different foundation; we wish Angelica to actively grow in various fields.
Angelique’s statement coincided with Lord Coe’s words that there would be no Russian athletes at the Paris Olympics. To put it eloquently in Russian, he’s an asshole and a lifelong Russophobe, even though he became a star at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. He is doing everything so that Russian athletics will never recover. But we will compete, organize tournaments and convince progressive humanity that we were, are and will be a great sports and athletics country,” Guberniev told .
The Paris Olympic Games will take place from July 26 to August 11, 2024.
Source : MatchTV
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