"Eyes to the floor": Russian world champion tells how he "hid" from Ukrainians at the 2024 Olympics

Canoeist Alexei Korovashkov admitted that he avoided even making eye contact with Ukrainians during the 2024 Olympic Games, which ended last weekend in Paris. According to the Russian, he and his teammates Zakhar Petrov and Olesya Romasenko did not have any contact with our compatriots.

Korovashkov said this in an interview with the propaganda TV channel Match TV. The 32-year-old native of Stepnohirsk, Zaporizhzhia region, who has won the World Cup five times, called his behavior a necessity "to avoid conflicts and provocations."

"Ukrainians? We crossed paths. Eyes to the floor - both they and we - and we passed by to avoid conflicts and provocations," Korovashkov said. He also said that in Paris 2024 he was banned from saying "Russia".

In turn, Romasenko also said that she did not communicate with Ukrainian athletes. "We try not to talk, not to start dialogues, so as not to raise painful topics. We just pass each other. We cross paths all the time - in the dining room, somewhere else. But no one has provoked each other - neither to talk nor to conflict," she emphasized during the Games.

As OBOZ.UA reported earlier, propagandist Dmitry Guberniev suddenly came to the conclusion that world sports is doing fine without Russian athletes at international tournaments.

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