Olympic champion and people's deputy Jean Beleniuk negatively assessed the work of Ukraine in the fight against the return of athletes from Russia to international sports.

" And if they were allowed, obviously not enough. I believe that the main work should have been directly related to the International Olympic Committee. And the National Olympic Committee had to do everything to prevent new recommendations that we have now.

Why? Will explain. We have a large number of different federations with a lot of Russian influence within them. And now, when in fact all responsibility has been shifted from the IOC to many different organizations, we will have an absolutely chaotic approach to how certain federations solve this issue - some hold on, some immediately admit.

We see absolutely no reason to do such things, despite the fact that the situation has not changed since last year..

Russia continues to kill civilian Ukrainians, destroy sports infrastructure, and we already have about three hundred athletes who died in this war,"

Recall, the IOC allowed the return of athletes from the Russian Federation and Belarus to international sports in a neutral status and provided that they are not military personnel and were not seen in support of the war in Ukraine. At the same time, the ban remained in force in team sports..

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Earlier it was reported that the Judo Federation of Ukraine officially withdrew the application for the World Championship with Russians and Belarusians.