Russia denounced on Monday the alleged actions of several governments of wanting to take the different international sports federations “as hostages” with the aim of preventing the country’s participation in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
“We see how the governments of some countries openly proclaim their interference in the decision-making process of international federations and try to take them hostage, imposing political conditions on the boycott of the Olympic Games,” criticized the Russian in a statement. Minister of Sports, Oleg Matitsin. .
The official recalls that this type of attitude “contradicts the Olympic Charter”, alleging that its supposed promoters intend to “destabilize and destroy the Olympic family”.
“Our country has always consistently upheld the principles established in the Olympic Charter that directly prohibit any form of discrimination against athletes,” said the country’s official, sanctioned for ignoring the Olympic Truce in Beijing 2022 (Winter Games) when On February 24, Russia militarized invaded Ukraine.
Several of the arguments used by the International Olympic Committee in the revealed opening to the reinsertion of Russian and Belarusian athletes served to reinforce the usual Muscovite rhetoric.
Among these, the “violation of human rights” in situations in which an athlete cannot compete “only because of his passport”, as well as the message addressed to Ukraine, which admits to boycotting Paris 2024 in case of reinstatement, in which the The government maintains that “boycotts never lead to the achievement of their objectives and only end with severe punishments for several generations of athletes”.
“In Lausanne [sede do COI]They are beginning to understand that major international competitions cannot be organized without the participation of Russian athletes”, he added, noting that the “vast majority of the members of the Olympic movement” have declared themselves in favor of reinsertion.
Poland, Denmark and the Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania – were among those who publicly opposed it.
Likewise, the presidents of the Ukrainian sports federations admit to having boycotted the Olympic Games, indifferent to the IOC’s intention to accept that Russians and Belarusians participate only “under a neutral flag” and as long as they have not “actively supported the war in Ukraine”.
kyiv strongly condemns this intention and its Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba cited the fact that 45 of the 71 Russian medals at the Tokyo 2020 Games were won by CSKA, the Russian army club.
“The army that commits atrocities, murders, rapes and robberies. That is what the ignorant IOC wants to allow to compete under the white flag, ”he accused.
Source: TSF
