SUBMIT PICTURE: The Olympic rings are envisioned ahead of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) head office in Lausanne, Switzerland, May 17, 2022. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated on Sunday that enabling Russia to contend at the 2024 Paris Games was identical to revealing that “terror is somehow acceptable.”
Zelenskiy stated he had actually sent out a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron as component of his project to keep Russian professional athletes out of the Paris Games.
“Attempts by the International Olympic Committee to bring Russian athletes back into the Olympic Games are attempts to tell the whole world that terror is somehow acceptable,” Zelenskiy stated in his nighttime video clip address.
“As if you could shut your eyes to what Russia is doing in Kherson, Kharkiv, Bakhmut and Avdiivka,” he stated, referring to locations that have actually been under attack from Russian pressures.
Russia, he stated, have to not be permitted to “use (the Games) or any other sport event as propaganda for its aggression or its state chauvinism”.
The International Olympic Committee stated recently that it invited a proposition from the Olympic Council of Asia for Russian as well as Belarusian professional athletes the possibility to contend in Asia.
Zelenskiy talked to Macron recently as well as has actually considering that introduced a “marathon of honesty” to keep Russian professional athletes out of theParis Games On Saturday, he stated there might be no nonpartisanship in sporting activities each time when his nation’s professional athletes battle as well as pass away in battle.
In his most current remarks, Zelenskiy stated the 20th century had actually seen a lot of blunders that led to shocking disasters.
“And there was a major Olympic mistake,” he stated, referring to the hosting of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin when the Nazis were in power. “The Olympic movement and terrorist states definitely should not cross paths.”
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