The Russian Foreign Ministry spoke about the admission of Russian athletes to the Olympic Games in Paris.
“We continue to act out of the inadmissibility of any politicized conditions for our athletes as a condition for their return to world sport,” a State Department spokesperson said. “News”.
The organization also talked about the change in the position of the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, regarding the admission of Russian athletes to the Olympics in 2024.
“Such ‘avoidance’ between radically different approaches shows that it was unintentionally replaced by Hidalgo’s curators abroad, who ‘slipped’ in his overly moderate phrase on January 26,” the State Department said.
A few days ago, Hidalgo announced that Russian athletes have the right to participate in the Summer Olympics. He made a new statement on February 7 that he changed his position. He stated that he did not want to see Russian athletes at the Games while a special operation was in progress in Ukraine.
On January 25, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that it is considering the possibility of allowing Russian athletes who do not support the conduct of a special operation on Ukrainian territory to participate in international competitions in a neutral status.
Formerly Svetlana Zhurova He explained the constant statements of Western countries that they do not want to see the Russians in the Olympics..