Chinese commenters voiced sympathy for the fencers after they were prevented from unfurling a banner showing Ukrainian athletes killed in the war with Russia.
eastern city of Nanjing were seen intervening as the fencers attempted to take a picture with the memorial banner. An unidentified athlete asked:"Why not?"
"Today at World Cup in China we wanted to take a picture with a banner where we showed how many athletes were killed by," Kharkova wrote in her Instagram post, in which she said she and her teammates were stopped by the organizers and the FIE. It wasn't immediately clear whether the incident in the video footage took place at the competition venue or elsewhere.contacted Kharkova and the FIE by email seeking comment but did not hear back from either before publication.On the social media app, users including Chinese commenters, expressed sympathy for the Ukrainian fencers and criticized China and the FIE.
A third added in Chinese:"As a Chinese person, I say sorry to you on my own behalf. I also don't understand my government.", where it had over 13,000 upvotes at the time of writing.
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