The Olympic champion explained why Russian athletes should boycott Paris 2024
Athletes striving for the Olympics in Paris must realize that they will still point fingers at them and look for an opportunity to hound them, as happened with Kamila Valieva. Only now no one talks about doping anymore - now it’s a political agenda.
Olympic champion in bullet shooting in Beijing 24, Artur Ayvazyan, said this on air on Crimea 2008, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If Thomas Bach had not been in the same trench with this Russophobe mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, then she should have long ago received a very painful slap on the cap and apologized to the whole world for her statements. But we have long understood who we are dealing with, and those who want to go to the Olympics once again without a flag and anthem raise big questions in my mind - have they still not understood and agree to be humiliated, while humiliating their country? Because they will definitely point fingers, they will definitely use this to their advantage, they will definitely come up with some next scandal to hound one of those who come, as was the case with Kamila Valieva,” he emphasized.
The athlete emphasized that Russia will definitely be on the margins in the medal table at the Paris Olympics.
“Even if these fifty, or however many people want to go, manage to win a few medals, it will not be very enough to top the table, as it always has been. Russia has always been at the forefront of the medal table, and this will remain in history. And then who is there to prove who was right and who was wrong? Subsequent generations will only see the picture and nothing else. Therefore, I am against us going to this Olympics, it is absolutely different from what it was at the previous two Olympics, where we agreed to come without a flag and an anthem. Because then the reason for the suspension of our athletes was a doping scandal, which no one talks about now. That is, this is a purely political action,” Ayvazyan concluded.
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