Putin: international sports organizations should not turn into departments of certain countries

Putin: international sports organizations should not turn into departments of certain countries

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed hope that international sports organizations will not turn into departments of certain countries no matter how influential they may be.

"We also expect that our colleagues in international sports organizations will do their best to see that these international organizations, sports unions don’t turn into departments of state agencies of certain countries, no matter how powerful and important these states would seem at first sight," Putin said at a meeting with participants in PyeongChang Olympics. 

"Please forgive us for failing to protect you from that [such attacks]," Putin said.

He pointed out everybody understood very well that the price of victories in top level sports was very high.

The President called for brushing aside all doubts and promised Russia would invariably compete and support "the idea of pure sports in all senses," clean from doping and far-fetched, temporary factors.

Putin said the whole nation was very emotional in its attitude to the plight of those athletes who are unable to go to compete at the Games. "We will do our utmost in order to support them," TASS cited him as saying.

He asked the Olympic athletes "to forget about what accompanied preparations for the Olympic Games lately and about the things I’ve just said."

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