The International Gymnastics Federation finds Ivan Kuliak’s use shocking.
Scaffolding Russian at the World Cup in Doha shocked Ivan Kuliak can get a long non-compete, the British newspaper The Guardian says.
Kuliak, 20, placed third in the leaning trees and arrived at the awards ceremony with the letter Z, familiar from Russian military vehicles, on his chest.
The letter Z, painted on Russian military equipment, symbolizes the expression of support in Russia Vladimir Putin war of aggression in Ukraine. It is said to refer to words, among other things for the time being that is, towards profit.
Read more: The letter Z can now be seen in Russia in clothes, cars and bus stops – What does the symbol inciting national fervor mean?
International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has asked the Ethical Gymnastics Foundation (GEF) to initiate disciplinary proceedings following Kuliak’s shocking behavior.
According to The Guardian, Kuliak can be penalized by the annulment of the results of the competition as well as a ban on competition, which can also be issued for an indefinite period of time, ie Kuliak can get a long ban from competition.
Saturday in any case, the competition was the last in which russian and belarusian athletes were allowed to take part before the ban on international competition, which began on monday.
The athletes were forced to compete due to Russia’s large-scale military operations already without country codes, and Kuliak taped the letter Z in his race uniform.
He stood on the podium with the Ukrainian who won the race Illia Kovtunin next to.
German journalist Jens Weinreich said On his Twitter account, the chairman of the Russian Gymnastics Association Andrei Kostin is already on the US and EU sanctions list.
“His athletes are ideologically blind and are waging Putin’s war in different ways,” Weinreich wrote of Kostin, who heads VTB.
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