Athletistic / Others. Three-time World Swimming Championships medalist, Russian Andrei Minakov, said he was not ready to accept the neutral status necessary for the admission of Russian athletes to participate in the 2924 Olympic Games in Paris (France) .
“It was expected that we would miss the World Championship. Now the question of our admission to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris is decided not so much by other competitions as by obtaining neutral status. In current conditions , I am not ready to do it,” RIA Novosti said. Novosti Sport quotes Minakov.
At the end of 2023, World Aquatics updated the criteria for admitting athletes from Russia and Belarus to international competitions. After that, the president of the All-Russian Swimming Federation (RSF), Vladimir Salnikov, said that the national swimming federations had sent a collective letter of disagreement with these admission criteria. And on January 17, World Aquatics reported that no Russian athletes had applied to compete in the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha. The tournament in the capital of Qatar will be held from February 2 to 18.
Source: Sport
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