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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 so yeah he
00:10was emotional as well you know I think for me yeah I think I don't think we
00:19were in tears but it was he is an athlete and for me I was not speaking to
00:29him in that room as a president I'm speaking to him as an athlete we we have
00:37these rules in place to try and be fair and also to try and allow for us to do
00:44both things right to allow for athletes to express themselves but also to allow
00:48for athletes to be safe and I really truly believe that both he and his dad
00:55understand that and I think this is a difficult situation that we are all in
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