MOSCOW, July 13, Oleg Bogatov. Russian State Duma deputy Nikolai Valuev in an interview said that the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), German Thomas Bach, had nothing to answer to an open letter from the champion of the 2020 Games, Russian athlete Maria Lasitskene, since the head of the IOC has many «skeletons in the closet.» Lasitskene in early June stated in a letter that Bach did not enough courage and dignity to cancel the suspension of Russian athletes from international competitions. There was no answer from the head of the IOC. «And Bach simply has nothing to answer this letter. He cannot answer negatively, because by this he admits that he does not have courage. For him, this will be an image loss. And if Bach answers in the affirmative, then he will have to he will not be able to do this, because he can be treated in the same way as in his time with the main candidate for the post of head of the European Commission. It was already clear to almost everyone that the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn will be its leader, but there was a scandalous story with a hotel cleaner in New York,” said Valuev. “Something similar will happen with Bach. Doesn’t he have similar skeletons in his closet? He has a lot of them. skeletons, which I can’t imagine, such skeletons will be thrown to him. And Bach understands this very well. For the sake of this very soft and rating chair, will he show any traits of a masculine character? Well, no, «the source said.
