Sviatlana Sakhanenka, the two-time Paralympic champion from Belarus, said she thought it was unfair for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to ban Belarusian and Russian athletes from the Paralympic Games.
"We just do our own job, we are just training and competing and we of course are very much disappointed of the situation because all this politics actually interferes with our job," she said.
The IPC announced Thursday that Russian and Belarusian athletes will no longer be allowed to participate as protests from other nations are"jeopardizing the viability" of the Games. Sviatlana Sakhanenka of Belarus celebrates after winning the Cross-Country Skiing - W 1.5km Sprint Classic Final, Visually Impaired on day five of the Pyeongchang 2018 Paralympic Games on March 14, 2018, in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea.
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