The International Olympic Committee has not extended invitations to Russia and Belarus to participate in the 2024 Olympics.
At the same time, this does not mean that athletes from Russia or Belarus will not compete at the Games. The IOC statement said that the decision on their participation will be “made at the right time”
I hope I am wrong too Lukas. I think we will get a better idea of how long this war will last in the coming months. The Russians had simply too much time to dig in deep and lay thousands mines.
Meanwhile…
THIS IS WHY UKRANIAN WESTERN ARTILLERY IS HAMMERING RUSSIAN GUNS ON THE BATTLEFIELD
Ukrainian fencer Olga Harlan refused to shake hands with her Russian rival Anna Smirnova. Harlan defeated Smirnova at the World Championships with a score of 15:7.
According to FIE rules, the athlete could have been disqualified for refusing to shake hands. But the judges did not change the decision and Harlan advanced to the next round.
A Ukrainian fencer just beat this russian fencer 15:7 and refused to shake hands. So the russian fencer decided to sit like this for 50 minutes demanding to disqualify her opponent due to “lack of respect”
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later… Ukrainian fencer, Olympic champion Olga Harlan was disqualified from the competition where she defeated a Russian woman and refused to shake her hand.
This was reported by Eurosport journalist Marco Arcari.
The Russian Sports Ministry will invite Ukrainian athletes to the World Friendship Games and will ensure the safety of their stay on the territory of the Russian Federation, the head of the ministry, Matytsin, has said.
The games are scheduled for September 2024, they will be held in Moscow and Yekaterinburg. From now on, they are planned to be held every four years.
Dnipro region, Mykolaiv and Ochakiv… Now it’s our Odesa region.
Today I had the honour to congratulate Ukrainian doctors and nurses, frontline medics on their professional holiday. I awarded the best ones. But I am grateful to everyone - to each and every one of you who stays in our towns and villages, in the frontline areas, who works on the frontline, who really keeps Ukraine alive.
In the morning, I held a meeting. As always, we discussed key issues of our defence, protection of our skies and our cities.
Mykolaiv has a lot of issues that need to be resolved for the people. In particular, in the regional hospital.
Ochakiv - thanks to our doctors who work there. They are truly real heroes!
Odesa - an important conversation took place in the presence of the Minister of Health with the Commander of the Medical F___es of the Armed F___es of Ukraine Tetiana Ostashchenko. We talked about the issues that are of acute concern to our combat medics, our soldiers.
We are looking for air defence systems to protect Odesa and our entire South. And I thank everyone in the world who has joined us in this work.
I thank everyone who is fighting for Ukraine!
Glory to Ukraine!
cette fille a crée un conflit dans sa fédération. il etais plus simple pour elle de saluer son adversaire même sans la regarder. elle donne un point a la russie . pfff.
Ukraine had warned the organizers of the World Fencing Championships in advance that our athletes would not shake hands with “neutral” athletes from Russia, Minister Vadym Gutzeit said.
The Russian woman staged a provocation against Olga Harlan: the representative of the aggressor country waited for a long time for a pause and thus put pressure on the organizing committee. The Ukrainian Fencing Federation has already prepared an appeal against the disqualification decision.