Double Olympic medalist in swimming Kliment Kolesnikov On the air of the show “Above Olympus” on , he admitted that during the upcoming competitions in Paris he would monitor the results of the strongest athletes.
Kolesnikov is the world record holder in the 50-meter backstroke and a six-time short course world champion.
— The Olympics are the Olympics. Life doesn’t stop. Let’s go. I’m not going to die tomorrow because I just didn’t swim in the Olympics. I’m probably more put off by today. I’m fine today. I’m swimming. And there’s a desire to keep going.
“I have not developed such a biased attitude towards all this that I will not even watch the Olympics. This is absurd, idiocy! Because the Olympics remain the Olympics of everyone who will participate in them. But as an athlete, I want to see the pure result. Nothing else interests me,” Kolesnikov said on the air of the program “Above Olympus. Swimming” on .
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced in December 2023 that it would allow Russian athletes who successfully qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games to have individual neutral status without a national flag, anthem or other symbol. The IOC also banned the participation of athletes associated with security forces or who have expressed support for the SVO. The All-Russian Swimming Federation (RSF) acknowledged the criteria for admitting Russians to neutral status at international competitions as unacceptable.
The Paris Olympics will take place from July 26 to August 11, 2024.
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