WARSAW : A fencing World Cup event in Poland has been cancelled by the local federation after the sport's international governing body rejected a proposal to make Russian and Belarusian athletes sign a statement opposing the invasion of Ukraine.
"We wanted all players and collaborators who were going to come to our World Cup to sign a statement that they oppose the regime of Vladimir Putin," PZS general secretary Jacek Slupski told Reuters on Friday. "Unfortunately, the International Fencing Federation has rejected our internal procedures, it did not allow any internal procedures to be used, only to comply with the procedures set by the world federation. This is unacceptable to us."
"We received a lot of warm words and congratulations... from many Western countries, that our attitude was very brave ... and that they join our official, tough position," Slupski said.
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