“I didn’t watch the Olympics because I live in the village and I decided to avoid this shame. Why this shame? Because our athletes are not there. How can there be an Olympics without one of the strongest teams in the world?
“I believe that the Olympics should remain the real Olympics and that sports should remain sports. There should not be this bacchanalia. I was not interested in watching this. Almost all of our strongest athletes made the right choice by refusing to participate. I immediately stated that in such conditions, participation was unacceptable. In addition, the opening ceremony also looked shameful, judging by what I read about it,” Drachev is quoted by TASS as saying.
The Paris Olympics ended on August 11. The winner of the unofficial medal standings was the American team, which won 126 medals of various types.
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