The IOC warned Ukrainians about protests against Russians at the Olympics

The International Olympic Committee has warned athletes from Ukraine about the inadmissibility of protest actions against Russian participants at the upcoming Olympic Games in Italy. This was announced on February 2 by Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladislav Geraskevich.

"We were contacted after the protests of our junior team at the European Cup and were already warned and asked about the Olympic Games. So that they don't organize any actions at the Olympics," Geraskevich told the Ukrainian newspaper Glavkom.

He also noted that the appeal was from the IOC.

The games will be held from 6 to 22 February in the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.

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Earlier, on January 28, it became known that 13 Russian athletes who will compete in neutral status will participate in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. The team included figure skaters Adelia Petrosyan and Peter Gumennik, short-track skaters Alyona Krylova and Ivan Posashkov, skiers Daria Nepryaeva and Savely Korostelev, speed skaters Ksenia Korzhova and Anastasia Semenova, ski mountaineer Nikita Filippov, luge skiers Daria Olesik and Pavel Repilov, as well as skiers Semyon Efimov and Yulia Pleshkova.

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