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Kirsty Coventry was emotional as she explained the reasons behind Vladyslav Heraskevych's Olympic ban
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00:00I really wanted to see him race today it's been an emotional morning um so yeah
00:10he was emotional as well could you share from meeting you know I think for me yeah I think I
00:19don't think we were in tears but it was he is an athlete and for me I was not
00:28speaking
00:29to him in that room as a president i'm speaking to him as an athlete um we we have
00:37these rules in
00:38place to try and be fair and also to try and allow for us to do both things right to
00:45allow for
00:45athletes to express themselves but also to allow for athletes to be safe and um i i really truly
00:53believe that both he and his dad understand that um and i think this is a difficult situation uh
01:00that we are all in
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