Athletes from the world championships of various sports perform without regretting the absence of Russian athletes, said the commentator of Dmitri Guberniev .
In the context of events in Ukraine, the Council of the World Athletics Association suspended Russian athletes from participating in international tournaments under its auspices, including the World Championships in Eugene. At the US tournament, high jumper Eleanor Patterson said after winning the competition that she didn’t want to “simply and lightly take the decision to exclude an entire nation”, commenting on the suspension of Russian athletes.
– I practically do not follow the World Cup, because without ours it is not very interesting. At least for me. Among the interesting results, only Fraser-Price can be mentioned. Clearly she could Lasickene take a medal, and likewise Alexander Bondar and Ruslan Ternovoy. The most important thing is that no one is sad that we are gone. What Patterson says is just shaking the air, those statements don’t make any sense. Nobody is sad – neither in athletics, nor in water sports, nor in other sports. And that’s what makes me sad. It remains for us to organize competitions in the country, not to give up and hope that one day we will return,” Guberniev told a correspondent.
Previously, the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had recommended international federations to withdraw Russian and Belarusian athletes from participating in tournaments due to the situation in Ukraine.
Source : MatchTV
