Athletistic / Fencing. Russian Fencing Federation (RFF) President Ilgar Mamedov commented on the story that happened at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris (France). There, Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan hugged Anna Bashta from Togliatti, who represents Azerbaijan.

Earlier at the World Championships, Kharlan had refused to shake hands with Russian athletes.

“It’s a circus. I remember that at the International Fencing Federation (FIE) congress in Lausanne in the fall of 2022, Harlan and Bashta were sitting together and having a nice conversation. I then approached Olga and asked her if she was. I was afraid that they would now be photographed and that she would do it… there would be problems for that. She replied that Anna was from Azerbaijan, but that there could be problems because I had approached her.

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It made me laugh, because in fact I was born in Baku and Bashta just has sports citizenship. It’s okay, we laughed, it turned out to be such a circus.

“I think it has to do with the cockroaches in his head that are eating his brain, nothing else. Naturally, all this is nonsense. They themselves do not know what they want, because their opinion changes every day,” Mamedov is quoted by Sport-Express.



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