"They are the backbone of empires": Russian Foreign Ministry says the West is mean because of the suspension of Russian athletes

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has once again accused international organizations of politicizing sports. The diplomat called the suspension of Russian athletes from world competitions an injustice, which was arranged by "Western and American regimes".

Zakharova said this in a commentary to the propaganda news agency TASS. The representative of the aggressor country, which unleashed a criminal war against Ukraine, added the absurd idea that Russian athletes are allegedly idolized by fans all over the world.

"The measures that are taken by American whether, Western regimes against Russian athletes, do not reflect people's attitudes towards our athletes. They contradict the way people, fans or athletes themselves, feel the principles of Olympism and how they treat athletes from different countries. It goes against, it goes against Olympism and the feeling of the majority of the population in these same countries. And the example of our athletes playing for teams inside the United States is the best evidence of that. Entire American sports empires are based on them, they are adored and idolized there," Zakharova said.

Earlier, she called Russia's suspension from international competitions one of the manifestations of the "perversion with the Olympic movement" that "the Anglo-Saxons and the rest of the NATO people have done." She also said that "the world has one last chance left to save world sport. "

As reported by OBOZREVATEL, an aide to dictator Vladimir Putin Igor Levitin with the words "what kind of suckers you are" was raised to laughter after his hit on the IOC. In turn, Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin demanded that the IOC exclude Putin's "condemnation of President Putin's policies" from the conditions of admission to the Olympic Games in 2024.

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