Valentina Matvienko said that the politicization of sports will destroy the Olympic movement

Valentina Matvienko said that the politicization of sports will destroy the Olympic movement.

“Now such a doomsday has come – if a decision is finally made to prevent (Russians from participating in the Games), the Olympic movement can be buried, because it is no longer possible to cause more harm to international sports,” said the speaker of the Federation Council at a press conference following the spring session.

“The United States and the collective West not only put pressure on all states, demanding the fulfillment of their will, but they put pressure on all international institutions, and it would seem that such a sphere as sports cannot be politicized, this is a gross violation of the principles of Olympism, when someone tries to remove some countries from participation in the Olympic movement, this is the path to the destruction of the Olympic movement,” R-Sport quotes Matvienko.