Ukraine’s Zelensky Urges “Full Isolation” Of Russia In 2024 Olympic Video games

Russia and Belarus have been remoted from worldwide sport since Ukraine invasion. (File)

Kyiv:

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned Wednesday Russian athletes ought to face “full isolation” and never be welcomed again on the 2024 Olympic Video games.

Zelensky advised Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach that he strongly opposed strikes by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee to permit athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete on the 2024 Paris Video games offered they don’t take part underneath their international locations’ colors or flags.

US officers mentioned Monday there was “unanimous curiosity” amongst delegates to an IOC summit to give you a pathway that might enable athletes from Russia and Belarus to return to competitors.

Russia and Belarus have been remoted from worldwide sport ever since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine in February.

Nevertheless, Zelensky blasted the American strikes, claiming that “since February, 184 Ukrainian athletes have died on account of Russia’s actions”.

Zelensky advised Bach he was dissatisfied with the presence of the president of the Russian Olympic Committee on the IOC summit on November 9.

“One can’t attempt to be impartial when the foundations of peaceable life are being destroyed and common human values are being ignored,” he mentioned in a press release.

Zelensky added that the one response is “the whole isolation of the terrorist state on the worldwide stage. Particularly, this is applicable to worldwide sports activities occasions.”

At this yr’s Winter Olympics in Beijing, Russian athletes had been solely allowed to compete underneath the nation’s Russian Olympic Committee flag resulting from earlier doping violations.

Nevertheless many athletes from Russia competed in uniforms within the colors of the Russian flag.

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