{"id":6860,"date":"2024-09-03T15:29:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T13:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/?p=6860"},"modified":"2024-12-09T12:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T12:25:01","slug":"ukrainian-athletes-boycott-russian-and-belarusian-athletes-on-the-podium-no-to-athletes-representing-an-aggressor-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/ukrainian-athletes-boycott-russian-and-belarusian-athletes-on-the-podium-no-to-athletes-representing-an-aggressor-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian athletes boycott Russian and Belarusian athletes on the podium: NO to athletes representing an aggressor regime!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games were marked by several incidents between Ukrainian athletes and their Belarusian and Russian counterparts, who competed under a neutral banner due to international sanctions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During Belarusian swimmer Ihar Boki\u2019s victory in the S13 50m freestyle,<\/span><b> Ukrainians Illia Yaremenko and Oleksii Virchenko, who won silver and bronze, refused to stand alongside him on the podium<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. They expressed their opposition to the participation of athletes from countries allied with Russia, such as Belarus, which openly supports Russia\u2019s war of aggression against Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A similar incident occurred in the T35 100m event, where <\/span><b>Ukrainian Ihor Tsvietov claimed the gold medal, forcing Russian athletes Artem Kalashian and Dmitrii Safronov to listen to the Ukrainian national anthem<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. As in the swimming event, <\/span><b>the three medalists did not pose together after the ceremony<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6863\" src=\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Capture-decran-2024-09-03-a-17.19.55-768x618-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These incidents reflect the<\/span><b> determination of Ukrainian athletes to resist, even on the sports field, against those representing an aggressor regime like Russia, which continues to bombard innocent civilians daily<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As long as Russia\u2019s bombs keep falling on Ukraine, Russian and Belarusian para-athletes have no place at the 2024 Paralympic Games! <\/span><b>#BloodGames2024\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/fr\/sports\/20240903-jeux-paralympiques-quand-la-guerre-en-ukraine-s-invite-sur-les-podiums\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find here the full article on France 24<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games were marked by several incidents between Ukrainian athletes and their Belarusian and Russian counterparts, who competed under a neutral banner due to international sanctions.\u00a0\u00a0 During [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ukrainian athletes boycott Russian and Belarusian athletes on the podium: NO to athletes representing an aggressor regime! 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