Athletistic / Others. The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Maria Zakharova, responded to the statement of the press office of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) regarding the US attempts to publish a series of documents against Russian sports.
“The time has come for a provocation: the monstrous organization of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, where scandal after scandal is raging. The world community is beginning to understand that all the arguments put forward by Russia are true and about transgender. “kills sports, and about the dishonesty of the IOC representatives led by Thomas Bach, and about using the topic of doping as a weapon against unwanted athletes,” Zakharova said, quoted by Sport-Express.
The SVR press office reported that while the United States intends to restart the process of denigrating Russian sports, only now attacks will take place against figure skaters, representatives of synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics. It is noteworthy that this project is supervised by the former heads of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov and Timofey Sobolevsky, who defected to the United States.
- See it for yourself. Russia has announced a boycott of the Paris Olympics.
It is worth noting that after the start of the SVO in Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), under pressure from Western countries, introduced sanctions against Russian sports. For this reason, only 15 Russian representatives will participate in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris (France).
Source: Sport
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