MOSCOW, Oct 20. Russian Victoria Dudakova, on the eve of Saturday's fight against American Jean Yu Frey at the 294th edition of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) tournament in Abu Dhabi, asked fans to bring her the national flag.
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"Friends, there are people here who who will come to see UFC 294 live? Maybe someone can bring our flag,” the athlete wrote on social networks.
Earlier, the decision to allow promotion fighters to once again enter fights with the country’s flag was announced by league president Dana White. In the spring of 2022, the organization banned its fighters from entering fights with the flags of their countries in order to avoid discrimination against the national symbols of individual countries, in particular Russia.