“I treat the athletes who went to the Olympics as people who ignore the opinion of their state. It was announced that the Russian delegation would not go to the Olympics. They talked about the illegality of not letting our country in, and in the end it was decided not to go to Paris.
Athletes who have trained all their lives at the expense of the state have become great thanks to the support of our country, and now they ignore its opinion. Such people hardly deserve respect. They will not defend the honor of our country, but only themselves. These athletes will have nothing to do with Russia. We will have no flag, no anthem, we will not even have a single group.
The way athletes present themselves is the way they should be treated. I don’t like the term “traitors”. I would say that athletes who go to the Olympics are ungrateful people. The country supported them, raised them and brought them to the top of sports, and when the state found itself in a difficult situation, they paid back with such coins,” Vasiliev said in an interview with a Sport24 correspondent.
- Laychev: The attitude of the West towards Russia is goatish rudeness.”
Source: Sport
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