Athletistic/OI-2024. Olympic speed skating champion and State Duma deputy Svetlana Zhurova shared her opinion on calls from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) not to participate in the Olympic Games. friendship in Russia.

In a conversation with pranksters Vovan and Lexus, the head of WADA, Witold Banka, expressed the opinion that countries should refuse to participate in these competitions.

“Their intentions are clear. They seem to want to eliminate the sport from Russia. This simply kills the children’s dream of participating in the Olympic Games. I don’t know how right they are in making such statements, but it is a do.

Let’s be honest, they are responsible not only to the IOC, but also to someone else. Their regulatory body is certainly not within the IOC, but elsewhere, and they are not independent at all. I’m convinced. And the saddest thing is that the situation today is worse than during the Cold War. Then there were two camps, they competed with each other and we had more allies. But now it seems that they can impose sanctions on those who support us and will participate in the Friendship Games.

Previously, the IOC had not imposed any sanctions on the country for its participation in competitions in Moscow or for its refusal from the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. For example, in 1984 the Friendship Games were held in Moscow and no one was punished for it.

Threatening athletes because they want to compete is unacceptable. In any case, we will hold the Friendship Games and other BRICS competitions,” Zhurova said in an interview with KP Sport.

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