MOSCOW, April 3 Simon Fourcade, a member of the coaching staff of the French biathlon team, said , which received many angry messages after supporting the suspended Russian athletes. Earlier, the International Biathlon Union (IBU) suspended Russian and Belarusian athletes from international competitions against the backdrop of the situation in Ukraine. At the Junior World Championships in the United States, Fourcade tore the French flag, changed colors and made the flag of Russia out of it, and then glued the image to the wax booth. He also spoke out against the removal of Russian athletes from international competitions.
"Since yesterday, my social networks have become very lively. After an interview that I gave to the Russian media, in which I said that I consider the exclusion of Russian athletes from international competitions absolutely counterproductive, I received hundreds of hostile messages", Fourcade wrote on Instagram*.
Also, the ex-biathlete asked subscribers not to drag their brother, five-time Olympic champion Martin Fourcade into the discussion. «I will add that I am already old enough to defend my own position, so there is no need to involve my brother in this discussion. So please let him stay away from all this story,» wrote Simon Fourcade.* The activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist