MOSCOW, April 28, Andrey Simonenko. Two-time vice-champion At the 2018 Olympic Games in figure skating, Evgenia Medvedeva called the conditions for admission of Russian athletes to the 2024 Games in Paris “cruel,” noting that six years ago she thought so about her criteria for participation in the Olympics.
““It’s hard, I can’t answer,” Medvedeva told reporters, answering the question of whether she would go to the Olympics according to the current criteria. “We thought that it was tough in 2018, we thought that it was tough in 2020.” , but it’s tough now. When I performed, we were still Olympic Athletes from Russia, everyone understood everything. But there was no such tension as now.”
Medvedeva, on the eve of the Olympics in Pyeongchang, went to the IOC executive committee, where she addressed members of the organization with an appeal to allow Russian athletes to participate in the Games. “I went, yes. They already told me that there is nothing to be proud of,” the figure skater stated.
Russian athletes competed at the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang in a neutral status as “Olympic athletes from Russia.” Russians were admitted to the Olympics in Paris without a flag, an anthem and subject to a number of criteria.