2024-07-27 17:07:48
Ukraine delegated 140 athletes to the Games, and these, after the approval of the country’s Olympic Committee, publicly stated that they refuse to shake hands with Russian athletes in any situation and in any context at the competition or anywhere else.
Although the 15-person contingent from Russia will start in Paris as neutral athletes, Ukraine sought to prevent Russian athletes from participating in the Olympics at all.
At the 2020 Tokyo Games, 335 athletes defended the colors of the Russian national team, and at the 2024 Paris Games, most Russians will compete on the tennis courts, and 8 Russians will be seen in four other sports.
The Russian Olympic Committee has released the names of all the athletes who will participate in the Paris Games, saying that 245 athletes were not allowed to participate in the Olympics or did not meet the requirements of the International Olympic Committee.
All 15 Russians will start in Paris as neutral athletes and they will not be able to wear their country’s paraphernalia, there will be no flag raised and no anthem played in their honor.
Athletes will also have to sign a declaration that they do not support the war with Ukraine caused by Russia and are not representatives of sports clubs of the military and power structures of this country.
The Russian Olympic Committee tried in every possible way to keep as few of their Olympians as possible from going to the “wrong games” and doing it by officially refusing to go to the Olympics.
“We got to spit!” – Tatyana Tarasova, a well-known Russian figure skating coach and legend, assessed Ukraine’s decision not to greet the Russians.
However, it can be seen that such a decision by Ukraine caused a fit of anger in Russia – the henchman of President Vladimir Putin’s dictatorial regime explained to the propaganda publication “Sport-Express” that it was not the handshake that was important to her.
“Spit it out!” We don’t care about their handshakes. The most important thing is to win and show maximum results. And no one needs their smelly handshake!” – explained T. Tarasova.
Before that, the figure skating coach hypocritically stated that Russia was “not a country that wanted war” and Ukraine was to blame for everything. The woman repeated the words of Russian propaganda that Ukraine would have attacked Russia in a few days and her country would have defended itself.
Two-time Olympic champion biathlete Olga Zaitseva attacked Ukrainians with absurd accusations and demanded that Ukrainian athletes be friends with representatives of the country’s aggressor.
“I think that these are already Nazi tendencies. Why do Ukrainians have no chance to say hello, why can’t they shake hands? After all, athletes must be outside of politics. Sports must be normal. After all, this is the Olympics – peace, friendship.
And here it turns out that they condense everything and try to focus all the attention on themselves. Idiots. A lot can be said about it.
Again, I think that everything was decided not by athletes, but by Ukrainian politicians and the country’s Olympic Committee. In reality, they act like Nazis. The world needs to consider everything well, take off the rose-colored glasses and change its opinion about Ukraine”, O. Zaiceva gushed.
Meanwhile, another admirer of V. Putin and exponent of Russian delusions, the president of the Russian Skiing Federation, Yelena Vialbe, ridiculed the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announcement about the necessary ceasefire in 2024. during the Paris Games. The former Olympic champion did not mince words and showed the vile essence of her terrorist state.
“IOC Announces Olympic Truce?” Listen, what kind of truce can we talk about? – said J.Vialbe to the sport24.ru portal. – Let the Olympic Committee deal with the Games. After all, the IOC wants peace all over the world and that there are no military conflicts anywhere – it is unlikely that anyone will listen to them. I want to say that Russia did not start any war. So if there is no war, what kind of necessary peace is there to talk about?”.
2024-07-27 17:07:48