Double Olympic biathlon champion Olga Zaitseva declared that she would not have agreed to participate in the Olympic Games under the conditions offered to Russian athletes by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Earlier, Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin called for respect for those who “thanks to their hard work earned the right to compete in the Olympics,” and also noted that it is important for Russia to “show an example of consolidation and not to give reasons for disunity”. » The head of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), Stanislav Pozdnyakov, noted that the ROC is on the side of athletes for whom the IOC conditions are “unacceptable neither in substance nor in form.”
— In the current situation, precisely in the conditions offered to athletes and our TOCs, I would refuse. We are currently going through a difficult period and we need to set important priorities,” Zaitseva told Metaratings.ru.
The IOC announced in December 2023 that it would allow Russian athletes who successfully qualified for the 2024 Olympics to have individual neutral status without a flag, anthem or other national symbol. The IOC also banned the participation of athletes associated with security forces or who have expressed support for the SVO.
The Summer Olympics will be held in Paris from July 26 to August 11.
Metaratings.ru
Source : MatchTV
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