“The IOC is an organization of bums. It’s a kind of shame, it’s a terribly dirty move on their part” – Tarasova on the call to abandon the “Friendship Games”

Honored Coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova said that the call for athletes and governments to refuse to attend the Friendship Games is a terribly dirty move by the International Olympic Committee (CIO ).

In a statement released Tuesday, the IOC called on athletes and governments to refuse to participate in the Friendship Games in Russia.

— Bravo to the IOC, they also explain this by politicization. Something new, I tell you. It’s a bit of a shame to act like the IOC. They limit athletes in their activities. And guess what? Athletes will listen to them, so you know it. They won’t come to us. This is a terribly dirty move on the part of the IOC. We think that this is some kind of serious organization, but in reality they are some kind of vagabonds who encourage everyone not to come to us. Usually there is a call to go. Apparently they want us to never participate in anything,” Tarasova told .

The Friendship Games will take place from September 15 to 29 in Moscow and Yekaterinburg.