Boxer Wladimir Klitschko joins fight against IOC plans to let some Russians compete at 2024 Olympics

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Wladimir Klitschko suggested in a video message that sports leaders will be accomplices to the war in Ukraine if athletes from Russia and Belarus can compete at the 2024 Paris Summer Games

Olympic gold medalist Wladimir Klitschko has joined Ukraine’s fight against IOC plans to let some Russians compete at the 2024 Paris Summer Games.

That softening of the IOC advice given last February – that sports bodies should exclude Russia and Belarus from international events – provoked anger in Ukraine, which warned it could boycott Paris. Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelenskyy directly invited Bach last week to visit Bakhmut, a wrecked city on the war’s current frontline, and his adviser Mykhailo Podolyak ended a stinging criticism of the IOC on Twitter with the words “Right, Mr. Bach?”

Klitschko’s elder brother, Vitali, is the mayor of Kviv and also a former heavyweight champion. They trained and fought for much of their professional careers in Germany, Bach’s home country. The IOC also has pointed to human rights concerns at the United Nations that athletes must not face discrimination based solely on their passport.

 

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'accomplices to the war' Oh...the military action the UA Nazis and their war-mongering allies invited by provoking Russia for 7 yrs? By 2024, the criminality and atrocities of UA's Nazi regime and its backers will be mainstream news. See how your virtue signalling flies then.

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