Sports commentator Dmitry Guberniev telegram channel He asked the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) to treat its athletes more carefully.
According to him, the words of the head of the PRC Stanislav Pozdnyakov, who announced that athletes planning to go to the Games in Paris were deprived of state funding, could cause a split in the Russian sports society.
“Now all we have to do is divide our athletes into friendly and unfriendly, hmm,” the journalist said.
On December 8, the International Olympic Committee allowed athletes from Russia to participate in the 2024 Olympic Games with neutral status.
It was initially reported that eight Russians and three Belarusians received licenses for the Games, but on December 13 the IOC press service corrected this data. Now the organization’s website says that six Russian and five Belarusian athletes have won quotas for the Olympics.
In the same message, the IOC emphasized that “no flags, anthems or any symbols of Russia or Belarus will be flown at the Olympic Games” and “no government officials from Russia or Belarus will be invited to the Games.”
It was known before dimension One-time payments to winners of the 2020 Olympic Games and the 2022 Olympic Games.
Source: Gazeta
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