Athletistic / Football. The President of the Russian Artistic Gymnastics Federation, as well as a member of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), Vasily Titov, said that the Olympic gymnastics tournament at the 2024 Games in Paris is poor without the participation of the Russian team. According to him, even its rivals admit this.
“The gymnastics tournament at the Paris Olympics is strong, very interesting, but, of course, it loses to the previous one, because the Russian men’s and women’s teams were one of the key teams there. Gymnastics is poorer because Russia is not there. the current Olympics. And everyone recognizes it perfectly.
“Today, in the world of gymnastics, almost every strong team has a Russian coach. Russia plays a huge role and everyone understands perfectly well that our absence is a great loss for gymnastics,” Titov said according to TASS.
- See it for yourself. Russia has announced a boycott of the Paris Olympics.
The artistic gymnastics competitions at the 2024 Olympics in the French capital took place from July 27 to August 5. The Russian national team as a whole refused to participate in the 2024 Olympic Games due to the IOC’s discriminatory demands.
Note that at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo (Japan), Russian gymnasts won 8 medals: 2 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze.
Source: Sport
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