Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for a boycott of the 2024 Paris Olympics if Russian athletes are allowed to take part.
OLYMPIC CHIEF THOMAS Bach has said that he shares the “grief and human suffering” of Ukrainian athletes, stressing that if it was not up to individual governments to decide who takes part in international sporting competition.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has called for a boycott of the 2024 Paris Olympics if Russian athletes are allowed to take part, said Friday their presence would be a “manifestation of violence”. “We’re trying to find a solution that is giving justice to the mission of sport, which is to unify not to contribute to more confrontation and more escalation.”
“But with regard to participation of athletes we have to accomplish our peace mission and that is a unifying mission of bringing people together.”
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