Previously, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed Russians and Belarusians to participate in the Olympic Games. However, many conditions apply to them.
Valuev assessed the likelihood of Russian athletes going to the Paris Olympics
“Only one person can decide this. But no one will now tell athletes that you, please, don’t go or don’t go. This issue is now being discussed within every sports federation.
This is a difficult time in everyone’s life. And for me too, because for so many years I believed in the ideas of Pierre de Coubertin, Juan Antonio Samaranch and Jacques Rogge. And now my friend Thomas Bach has missed it all the way. We will wait, but it is better not to participate,” Tyagachev quotes RIA Novosti.
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