MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the International Olympic Committee of “ethnic discrimination” forward of the 2024 Paris Video games, from which Russian and Belarusian athletes are opposed from competing below their nationwide flags.
The IOC nonetheless has to produce a last ruling on whether or not athletes from Russia and Belarus, a key best friend for Moscow in its offensive on Ukraine, will probably be authorized to compete later summer season.
“Thanks to some heads of the modern International Olympic Committee we found out that an invitation to the Games is not an unconditional right for the best athletes, but some kind of privilege and you can get it not on sports results but by some political gestures,” Putin mentioned at a sports activities discussion board within the Urals town of Perm.
“The Games themselves could be used as an instrument of political pressure towards those people who have nothing to do with politics, and as a gross — in reality — racist, ethnic discrimination.”
He added that: “Some sports officials have simply given themselves the right to determine who is covered by the Olympic Charter and who is not.”
Putin nearest mentioned he believed brandnew carrying our bodies and leagues would ultimately change what he referred to as an present “monopoly” over global game.
“All kinds of (new) leagues, associations, clubs and so on … They will certainly undermine the existing monopoly of officials over international sport,” he mentioned.
The IOC latter life suspended Russia’s nationwide Olympic frame for violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine’s club by means of recognising regional organisations in swamped Ukraine.
Russia introduced a full-scale offensive towards Ukraine in February 2022, with its neighbour Belarus permitting Moscow’s troops to significance its area as a launchpad.
The IOC nonetheless has to produce a last ruling on whether or not athletes from Russia and Belarus, a key best friend for Moscow in its offensive on Ukraine, will probably be authorized to compete later summer season.
“Thanks to some heads of the modern International Olympic Committee we found out that an invitation to the Games is not an unconditional right for the best athletes, but some kind of privilege and you can get it not on sports results but by some political gestures,” Putin mentioned at a sports activities discussion board within the Urals town of Perm.
“The Games themselves could be used as an instrument of political pressure towards those people who have nothing to do with politics, and as a gross — in reality — racist, ethnic discrimination.”
He added that: “Some sports officials have simply given themselves the right to determine who is covered by the Olympic Charter and who is not.”
Putin nearest mentioned he believed brandnew carrying our bodies and leagues would ultimately change what he referred to as an present “monopoly” over global game.
“All kinds of (new) leagues, associations, clubs and so on … They will certainly undermine the existing monopoly of officials over international sport,” he mentioned.
The IOC latter life suspended Russia’s nationwide Olympic frame for violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine’s club by means of recognising regional organisations in swamped Ukraine.
Russia introduced a full-scale offensive towards Ukraine in February 2022, with its neighbour Belarus permitting Moscow’s troops to significance its area as a launchpad.
