2024-03-22T15:07:26+00:00
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/ The President of the Worldwide Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, fell prey to a hoax cellphone name amid rising pressure with Russia over the restrictions imposed on its athletes competing within the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games.
Yesterday, Thursday, the Worldwide Olympic Committee introduced particulars of calls it obtained from individuals claiming to be from the African Union, a hoax just like the one carried out by Russian callers with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni final September. In that decision, Meloni admitted that her nation was “fed up” with the conflict in Ukraine, believing that she was speaking to officers within the African Union.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee stated it had obtained calls from “an individual posing because the Chairperson of the African Union Fee” who needed to debate an announcement on the politicization of sport.
The IOC and Bach have publicly criticized the Russian state, notably relating to plans to prepare a global multi-sport occasion in September, weeks after the conclusion of the Paris Olympics.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee determined this week that Russian athletes who handed screening checks to compete in Paris won’t take part within the opening boat parade on the Seine River.
The committee stated in an announcement yesterday, Thursday: “There seems to be a brand new incident within the Russian disinformation and defamation marketing campaign in opposition to the Worldwide Olympic Committee and its president.”
She added: “The hoax calls purporting to be from the African Union Fee seem to have been made by the identical group that has already focused numerous world political leaders and different high-level figures in the identical method.”
Russian scammers Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexei Stolyarov, often called Vovan and Lexus, deceived Polish President Andrzej Duda in November 2022. Duda believed on the time that he was speaking to French President Emmanuel Macron.
It’s noteworthy that there are about 35 Russian athletes on their method to the Paris Olympics, which constitutes roughly 10% of the standard Russian groups to take part within the Summer season Video games.