The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will not yield to “political pressure” from US lawmakers to strip Russia of the 2014 Winter Games, says a top Russian official.
The IOC “adheres to the principle that ‘sport is separate from politics’ and will surely not yield to political pressure,” Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov said in an interview with Russian daily Kommersant.
“The location of the Olympics is not determined by American laws,” Zhukov said in response to an initiative by two US lawmakers to ask the IOC to strip Russia of the Games as punishment for sending troops into neighboring Georgia.
“The Olympics will only be in 2014, and now it’s just 2008. Do you think this will still be a conflict zone by then? I don’t think so,” he said.
from: inquirer.net
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