On Monday, the President of Ukraine accused the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of facilitating the war in Ukraine for allowing the possibility of allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete in the 2024 Olympics in Paris under a neutral flag.
“The IOC is a promoter of war, death and destruction. The IOC happily watches as Russia destroys Ukraine with Russia, and then offers Russia a platform to propagate the “genocide” of Ukrainians,” wrote adviser to the President of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak on social media. twitter network.
On Wednesday, the IOC allowed the reintegration of Russian and Belarusian athletes into international competitions despite sanctions imposed on the political and sporting structures of the two countries following the invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24, 2022.
According to the IOC, “no athlete can be excluded from competition solely on the basis of his passport.”
Faced with such a possibility, backed by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo but contested by several countries such as the UK and Denmark, Ukraine has already recognized a boycott of the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
“It is clear that the money that buys the Olympic hypocrisy does not smell of Ukrainian blood. [Thomas] Bach]- asked Mikhail Podolyak, addressing the President of the IOC.
The openness to Russian and Belarusian athletes angered Ukrainians, with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday denouncing the IOC’s “hypocrisy” and inviting Bach to visit Bakhmut, in the country’s east, one of the locations hardest hit by the war with Russia. .
On Sunday, in his daily speech, Zelensky said he had written a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron about the matter.
“The paths of Olympians and terrorist states must not cross,” Zelenskiy said after Ukraine’s Sports Minister Vadim Gutsayt threatened to boycott the Games on Thursday.
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