Double Olympic swimming champion Evgeny Rylov announced to that he refused to participate in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris under the current conditions of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The IOC announced last week that it would grant neutral status to Russian and Belarusian athletes who successfully qualified for the 2024 Games. Russian athletes will be able to perform in Paris without a flag, anthem and other national symbols. The IOC banned the participation of athletes associated with security forces or who had expressed support for the SVO.
— I have prepared a statement and I want to express it. More than once he expressed his political position and his views regarding the IOC. My statement today will be no exception.
My country has never given up and has always emerged from difficult situations. As our president said, we must believe in the great Russian people. I want to live up to it and I’m not going to lower myself to the level of Western provocateurs. Russia is great. We now have a replacement for international departures, but they also want to ban them.
I am not the example of the IOC, I am for clean sport. I have made an informed decision: I refuse to go to the Olympics until all this nonsense has sunk to the bottom and our waters become clean again. I am honest with myself, faithful to my choice and to my country. “Thank you for your attention,” Rylov said on .
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a hotline on Thursday that the Russian Sports Ministry and the Russian Olympic Committee must analyze the IOC’s conditions before making a decision on participation in the Paris Olympics.
The Olympic Games in the French capital will be held from July 26 to August 11.
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