00:00Ukrainians have have said they're being discriminated against with a decision by
00:04the IPC to allow the athletes in Russian athletes here at the Games have
00:09said this is a fair decision do you feel that the IOC has discriminated against
00:13the Ukraine thank you very much it's based on the Olympic Charter and the
00:17interpretation Olympic Charter can obviously always be be be be contested
00:23but very simply put it is part of the Olympic Charter that the athletes
00:30expression rules which were as you know agreed by the athletes led actually by
00:36our president when she was chair of the Athletes Commission they were rules that
00:40the athletes themselves asked for our problem is not with the message it was
00:44simply with the place and we ask everyone to try to respect that field of play
00:51moment and to keep it free from messaging and we ask that for any country from
00:55any athlete from anywhere in the world
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