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File picture of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. (Picture/AP)
Zelensky instructed French president Emmanuel Macron that Russian athletes should not have any place on the 2024 Olympics that Paris is about to host
Russian athletes ought to have “no place” on the 2024 Paris Olympics, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky instructed French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday as his nation marked 11 months of conflict.
“I notably emphasised that athletes from Russia should not have any place on the Olympic Video games in Paris,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram following a phone name with Macron.
Russia launched its invasion on February 24 final 12 months, simply days after the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee swiftly sanctioned Russia and neighbouring Belarus, which Moscow’s troops used as a launchpad for the assault.
No worldwide sporting occasion has been organised in Russia or Belarus for the reason that outbreak of the battle and the international locations’ nationwide symbols have been faraway from such main competitions.
IOC chief Thomas Bach mentioned final 12 months that he wish to see the sporting sanctions prolonged in 2023 and a powerful Ukrainian workforce on the Paris Olympics and the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.
Zelensky in December known as for all Russian athletes to be fully remoted from worldwide competitions.
The Ukrainian president additionally instructed Bach that he fiercely opposed the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s view that Russian and Belarusian athletes might compete on the Paris video games so long as they didn’t bear their international locations’ flags.
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