Olympic high jump champion Maria Lasitskene said that the postponement of the World Friendship Games would have a negative impact on representatives of any sport.
On Tuesday, it became known that the International Friendship Association (IFA) has taken the initiative to postpone the Friendship Games in Russia to 2025. The competition was planned to take place in September 2024 in Moscow and Yekaterinburg. The Friendship Games Organizing Committee, together with the IFA, will propose new dates for the tournament if its postponement is approved by the Russian government.
“This news will hit athletes of all stripes hard.” Because everyone was counting on this debut as one of the most important, they were preparing. It is also a financial blow, because big prizes have been announced. But it is already an inconvenient fact. But we in athletics are used to it: we dusted ourselves off, got up and went to prepare for the next competitions in the hope that everything will work out,” a correspondent reports, according to Lasitskene.
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