Russian athlete from the Russian Cup declared "winner of the champions" of the 2024 Olympics

Russian sports officials have once again demonstrated absurd behavior in relation to the 2024 Olympics. By not allowing athletes to travel to Paris in the so-called neutral status and openly disrespecting the tournament in France, they decided to declare the winners of the 2024 Olympic Games championships to be athletes who outperformed the results of the real gold medalists at the Russian Cup.

In particular, swimmer Yevhenia Chikunova and her colleague Yevhen Rylov will be presented to the audience as the champions of the 2024 Olympic Games before the national competitions." This was reported to propagandists from the Russian Federation by the President of the All-Russian Swimming Federation Vladimir Salnikov.

"For the next four years, we will announce Chikunova as a two-time champion of the 2024 Olympic Games at all-Russian competitions, and Evgeny Rylov as a two-time Olympic champion and silver medalist of the Games in Paris," Salnikov said.

In the final of the Russian Cup, Chikunova's times in the 100 and 200-meter breaststroke were higher than those of the 2024 Olympic gold medalists Tatiana Smith of South Africa and Kate Douglass of the United States. The situation looks as absurd as possible, because the emotions of athletes at the Olympics and the level of opposition are many times higher than competitions within the country.

As OBOZ.UA previously reported, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov became a laughingstock online, saying that the 2024 Olympics "borders on perversion."

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