Distant controversy between Ukraine and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on the hypothesis of the participation of Russian athletes in the Paris Olympics in 2024
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Kiev has called the IOC a "promoter of war"
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“The IOC is a promoter of war, murder and destruction. The IOC watches with pleasure as Russia destroys Ukraine and then offers Russia a platform to promote genocide and encourages its further killings. Obviously Russian money who buy Olympic hypocrisy do not smell like Ukrainian blood,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhaylo Podolyak wrote on Twitter.
The accusation follows the IOC's statement that the sports body is evaluating how Russian athletes compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Kyiv's sports minister Vadym Guttsait last week said the
The IOC "rejects in the strongest possible terms this and other defamatory statements which cannot serve as a basis for any constructive discussion".
This is what we read in a statement received by ANSA in response to the statements of the Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhaylo Podolyak, who accused the IOC of being "a promoter of war, murder and destruction" due to the fact that it evaluates the possible participation of Russian athletes in the Paris Olympics in 2024
