Two -time Olympic fencing champion Olga Harlan harshly criticized the International fencing Federation (FIE), including the election of Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov as president of the organization of Russian oligarch. " That's it. I do not have many comments on this topic, because, to be honest, this behavior of the international federation got sick. I am not saying the president who has been chosen now, I say the whole federation. Because this is a very large organization that supports, that wants to play this game with corruption and so on in our sport. And it is very common due to the influence of Russians or Uzbeks or someone else on the results. There is even a video, and we see it at competitions, and it is very bad. We will not be able to do anything about this, because this car is very large and, unfortunately, the money decides a lot. Therefore, when I saw these results, when I heard that he was running for as a president - I was not surprised at all. In general. I knew that it was supported, but I didn’t think that it would be 126 countries (actually 120 - approx.. Well, really, I didn’t think it would be 126 countries. I thought, well, 90, well, 100. 26 countries voted for another candidate. What are you? I was shocked, to be honest,” Kharlan said in an interview with Liga Life. We add that a few days after the election of Usmanov voluntarily left the post of President Fie.

Usmanov previously headed the International Fencing Federation from 2008 to 2022, when he resigned as FIE President after the European Union imposed sanctions on him. The decision to apply sanctions to him was justified by the fact that Usmanov has " Let us remind you that Harlan won two medals at the 2024 Olympics in Paris: team gold and bronze in the individual championship.. Now Olga has six Olympic awards. She became the absolute record holder of Ukraine on won medals at the Olympiads.