The five athletes registered as members of the Syrian team are citizens of Russia and members of Russian national teams. International sports rules forbid an athlete from having more than one sports nationality simultaneously.
she was going to take part in the Arab Sports Games as a member of the Syrian national team, under a fictitious name and surname and with a false date of birth:
“I was offered the competition as a commercial start; the organizers said there would be no problems. As a result, when the situation changed, we decided to withdraw from the competition so there would be no problems.”that Russian athletes were not taking part in the Arab Sports Games and had not declared a change of citizenship, “with the exception of two people.”
TASS quoted the ministry as naming those two athletes as Milana Mugu and Alexandra Maksimov , saying they were among the athletes officially representing the Syrian national team but were “not included in the approved lists of candidates for the sports teams of the Russian Federation for 2023.”
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