Beijing, February 13, Andrey Simonenko. At the International Olympic Committee (IOC) stated that the actions of the Ukrainian skeletonist Vladislav Geraskevich, who demonstrated the poster «No war in Ukraine» during the competitions in Beijing, contained a «human message», but they had a conversation with him, since the Games are not a place for political statements. Geraskevych 11 February, after one of the races at the Olympics, he showed a poster with the inscription No War in Ukraine (“No war in Ukraine”) on TV cameras. The frame hit the broadcast. «No war — this is the message to which we will all subscribe, this is a very humane message. Yes, there are wars in the world. We can only sympathize with those who find themselves in the war zone. I would not go into thoughtful generalizations «(IOC President Thomas) Bach explained what the Olympic Truce is. In many ways, this is a symbolic gesture. We want all countries to take this principle more seriously. Then we will live in a safer world,» the IOC Executive Director said at a briefing in Beijing Christoph Duby. «We had a conversation with the athlete, in his last race he rode without a poster,» said Mark Adams, head of the IOC press service. «We all want peace, the IOC president said: Give peace a chance. But in our case, the Olympics are not room for political statements, we must remain politically neutral.»
