Potential successor Thomas Bach explained his position on athletes from Russia And BelarusSports.kz reports with reference to Tut-news.ru.
Candidate for the post of head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sebastian Coe explained why he supported the removal of athletes from the Russian Federation and Belarus.
Coe now heads the International Athletics Federation.
The sports official claims that the suspension of Russian and Belarusian athletes was not his personal decision, the Sportsin portal reports.
Coe emphasized that the organization he now heads is politically neutral.
But at the same time, he pointed out that there are situations when a leader must take a certain position.
According to him, this is exactly what happened in…
