Fajarasia.id – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized the idea of sports neutrality when his country’s athletes died fighting in the war while Russian athletes were allowed to compete.
“There is no such thing as neutrality in a war like this, and we know that tyrants often try to use sport to promote their ideology,” Zelensky said Monday. said in his Daily Speech on 30 January 2023. .
Zelensky said a Russian invasion of Ukraine would become the norm if there were Russian athletes at the 2024 Olympics.
To that end, he will once again take part in what he calls the ‘Honest Marathon’ in an effort to keep Russian athletes out of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Russia says attempts to ban the country from international sporting events are doomed to failure.
On Wednesday, the Olympic Council of Asia offered Russian and Belarusian athletes the chance to compete in Asia, giving them a way to qualify for the 2024 Olympics.
The Ukrainian government has announced that it will boycott sporting events if Russian and Belarusian athletes participate.
The war in Ukraine has been going on for her 12 months and shows no signs of ending, with Russia stepping up its offensive in recent weeks.
Russian aggression has killed thousands, displaced millions of civilians and devastated Ukrainian cities. “Russian attacks have killed hundreds of Ukrainian men and women who could have brought their talents to the world of sports,” Zelensky said.***
