Zelensky says Ukraine would boycott Olympics if Russia is allowed to compete
Asserting that permitting Russia to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics would amount to demonstrating that “horror is somehow acceptable,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has promised to forbid athletes from his nation from competing there.
The Olympic Council of Asia gave Russian and Belarusian athletes the possibility to compete in Asia, providing them with a qualification road for the 2024 Games, according to the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday.
Even if both Belarus and Russia send competitors to the competition under a neutral flag, Ukraine indicated it might boycott it.
“Attempts by the International Olympic Committee to bring Russian athletes back into the Olympic Games are attempts to tell the whole world that terror is somehow acceptable,” he said in his nightly address on Sunday, January 29.
It must be prohibited, he said, for Russia to “exploit (the Games) or any other sporting event as propaganda for its aggressiveness or its state chauvinism.”
