The world record holder in swimming Evgenia Chikunova commented on the appearance of the Russian flag opposite her last name in the broadcast of the Olympic Games — 2024. This is reported by Match TV.
Before the start of the women’s 200—meter breaststroke qualification swim at the Paris Olympics, the broadcast showed the result of Chikunova, who in April 2023 set a world record of 2 minutes 17.55 seconds. Next to her name in the graph was the flag of Russia.
“It’s nice, but I didn’t think it could be any other way. The record has been officially ratified,” the athlete said.
As EADaily reported, the Olympic Games in Paris are held from July 26 to August 11. In neutral status, 15 athletes from Russia.
While the Games are accompanied by a lot of scandals. There is still an active discussion of the opening ceremony of the Olympiad, which was accompanied by both frank organizational and technical blunders, as well as provocative and dubious findings of the scriptwriters of the holiday. The IOC has already had to apologize to the whole world for the LGBT version of the Last Supper, the key figure of which is the actress Barbara Butch complained of unprecedented harassment in Networks after this scene. Actor Philip Katerina, who appeared in the image of Dionysus, practically naked and painted blue, also apologized to the outraged viewers of the broadcast.
Today, July 31, after the swim in At the finish line of the Olympic race, Canadian triathlete of Ukrainian origin Tyler Mislavchuk vomited. Earlier, the IOC announced that the organizing committee of the Games had received permission to hold triathlon competitions in the Seine. The results of the water tests, obtained at 03.20 am local time, were recognized by World Triathlon as “compliant”.
*Extremist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation