"Vladimir Vladimirovich gives a choice": Russian Olympic champion refuses to participate in the 2024 Olympics for Putin's sake

Two-time Olympic swimming champion Yevgeny Rylov does not agree to participate in the 2024 Games in Paris under a neutral flag and without the national anthem. The participant of the Z-rally in Luzhniki last March, for which he was disqualified for nine months, also thanked dictator Vladimir Putin.

Rylov said this in an interview with Sovetsky Sport. Commenting on Putin's statement that the decision to participate in the Olympics should be made by the athletes themselves, the swimmer criticized the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for allegedly being unfair to Russians.

"Vladimir Vladimirovich gives everyone a choice. For athletes, the Olympics is the meaning of life. It is the highest level. But so far, I don't agree with the IOC's conditions. I don't really want to go to Paris, especially if I have to sign a declaration. My position now is that I don't intend to go anywhere," Rylov said.

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Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called Russia's suspension from international competitions one of the manifestations of "perversion with the Olympic movement" that "was done by the Anglo-Saxons and other NATO members." She also stated that "the world has one last chance to save world sport."

As reported by OBOZREVATEL, dictator Vladimir Putin's aide Igor Levitin was laughed at after he ran into the IOC with the words "what kind of suckers are you". In turn, Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin demanded that the IOC exclude "condemnation of Putin's policies" from the conditions of admission to the 2024 Olympics. And the president of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), Stanislav Pozdnyakov, accused Ukraine of setting the conditions for the admission of Russian athletes to international competitions and the 2024 Games in Paris.

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