Recall that on February 28, Bach appealed to sports federations with a request for the exclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes from international tournaments.
After Bach’s statement, many international federations excluded Russians from the competition, and the rights to organize various tournaments were withdrawn from Russia.
“We had a lot of arguments from the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) who said, ‘What is this situation so unique, what did you do when there were military conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria, in Yemen, Mali, Ethiopia and elsewhere?
There are many crises. The answer is that this is a flagrant violation of the Olympic Truce and that these are defensive measures that we had to take, because the reaction of the world to other conflicts was not the same as the actions of Russia in Ukraine,” Bach told Match TV with reference to Inside the Games.
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