Zelenskyy starts Marathon of honesty to prevent Russian athletes from entering Olympics
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced the beginning of the Marathon of Honesty, which will be aimed at cleaning the leadership of international Olympic structures from hypocrisy and any attempts to bring representatives of Russia into world sports. Source: Zelenskyy's evening address Details: The head of the state expressed his disappointment with the statements of Thomas Bach, the current President of the International Olympic Committee, who wants to bring Russian athletes back to international competitions. "I spoke with him several times.
And I never heard how he was going to protect sports from war propaganda," Zelenskyy noted. He pointed out that tyrannies often use sports for their ideological interests."It is obvious that any neutral flag of Russian athletes is stained with blood," said Zelesnskyy. Quote: "I do not want to get into what exactly motivated Mr.
Bach to promote such an initiative. But we will do everything so that the world protects sports from political and any other influence of the terrorist state, which is simply inevitable if Russian athletes participate in competitions. And especially at the Paris Olympics.
Ukrainian athletes are forced to defend the lives of their loved ones and the freedom of our people from Russian aggression. Russian strikes took the lives of hundreds of Ukrainian men and women who could have brought their talents to world sports.
Russia must stop aggression and terror, and only after that it will be possible to talk about Russian participation in the context of the Olympic movement. Olympic principles and war are fundamentally opposed to each other."
Zelenskyy also invited Bach to Bakhmut so that he could see for himself that there is no such thing as neutrality.
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- Earlier, Zelenskyy expressed his frustration caused by the presence of the President of the Olympic Committee of Russia at the IOC summit on 9 November and the intention to bring Russian and Belarusian athletes back to international competitions under a neutral flag.
- And Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's Foreign Minister, has invited the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, Thomas Bach, to the city of Druzhkivka, Donetsk Oblast.
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