Two-time Olympic biathlon champion Dmitry Vasiliev said: “The leaders of the RFJ are simply great, I applaud them, we must react to such things accordingly. This evokes deep respect.”
For her part, the president of the Russian Federation of Rhythmic Gymnastics, Irina Viner, who rejected the IOC’s actions, said that “this was to be expected, unfortunately it happened.”
The day before, FRJ President Sergei Soloveichik announced that out of 17 athletes qualified for the Olympics, only four passed.
“We have made a unanimous decision: the Russian national judo team will not accept humiliating conditions and will not compete at the Paris Games with the composition proposed by the IOC officials,” Soloveichik said in an interview with Russian sports channel Match TV. “Sooner or later reason and common sense will triumph in the Olympic movement,” said a statement from the FRJ, which also calls for an IOC reform.
On June 28, the international sports body announced that the judokas admitted to the Olympic Games are Valery Endovitsky, Elis Startseva, Dali Liluashvili and Makhmadbek Makhmadbekov.
The Paris Olympic Games will take place from July 26 to August 11.
The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, has repeatedly described the IOC’s rules for the admission of Russian athletes as illegal, unfair and discriminatory.
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2024-06-29 18:33:11
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