"VAN" (Sports Desk - 02.04.2024) :: The leadership of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspends Russian athletes purely based on their nationality, which proves that the organization is playing politics, the chief of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) said on Monday.
"The authorities of the international Olympic Movement in recent years have become experts at arguing that black is white, shifting their own responsibility onto anyone else to cope with the set tasks," ROC President Stanislav Pozdnyakov stated on his Telegram account.
"For instance, such tasks as squeezing out everything related to Russia from the international sports landscape, which it [the IOC] usurped," he continued.
"It has finally been announced officially that Lausanne [home to the IOC headquarters] is a player on the political stage and sports is intertwined with politics. Another myth is busted," the ROC chief noted.
"However, there is a new fairy-tale afoot about Russia’s alleged boycott [of the 2024 Paris Olympics]," he said. "It emerged at a time when no one from our country was invited to the Olympics and they are still not invited as of today."
"Today’s Olympic boycott is about the IOC’s policy on banning athletes based on their national identity," the ROC chief stressed.
TASS
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