Bach wrong on Russian participation, says Ukrainian tennis player Kostyuk FMTNews FMTSports
IOC president Thomas Bach used Marta Kosyuk’s victory over Russia’s Varvara Gracheva to reinforce his point that Russians already compete in some sports without problems.
“My game was mentioned by Bach ,” Kostyuk said in a conference call with Olympic champions and other international athletes who oppose the readmission of Russia and Belarus. “A lot has been said and I wanted to say from myself, we have not been doing it publicly, but for the last year we have been fighting to exclude Russians and Belarusians from our sport,” she said.
“It is an ethical conflict every time we play against them,” Tsurenko said. “It affected me so that I had kind of panic attacks.”
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