Le CIO critique les "Jeux de l'amitié" russes
Le Comité international olympique a adopté une position plus ferme mardi à l'égard de la Russie, qu'il accuse de "politiser le sport" en lançant ses "Jeux de l'amitié" en septembre prochain, une nouvelle compétition concurrente des Jeux olympiques qui prévoit également une édition hivernale.
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00:00 The Olympic International Committee has adopted a firmer position on Tuesday regarding Russia,
00:05 which accuses it of politicizing sport by launching its "friendship games" in September,
00:09 a new competition competing in the Olympic Games which also plans a winter edition.
00:14 The organization, based in Lausanne, which authorizes the presence of Russian athletes
00:18 at the next Games in 2024 in Paris only under a neutral banner provided that it does not support
00:22 the Russian invasion of Ukraine, asks the sports world and the governments invited by Moscow
00:27 to reject any participation and any support for this event, it states in a statement.
00:32 Announced for several months, the first edition of the Summer Friendship Games should
00:37 a priori be held in Moscow and Ekaterinburg in September, the CIO recalls, while the
00:42 Winter Friendship Games are scheduled for 2026 in Sochi, which hosted the Games in 2014.
00:47 These two initiatives are added to the Games of the Future organized in Kazan on February 21
00:52 and March 3, mixing traditional and sports disciplines, and to the "Brick Games",
00:57 acronym for the emerging powers around Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
01:02 , in particular, scheduled in the same city from June 12 to 23, and which should host
01:06 athletes from more than 50 countries, according to Russian authorities.
01:10 Russian cynicism The CIO does not blame the Russians for creating
01:15 multisport competitions outside of their own agenda, since there are already several,
01:19 including Commonwealth Games or the Games of Francophony, but to do so via a very
01:24 supportive diplomatic offensive, through direct contact with "the governments of the whole world".
01:28 In order to make their purely political motivations even more evident, they deliberately
01:33 bypass the sports organizations of their target country, emphasizes the institution, which
01:37 sees a cynical attempt to exploit athletes for political propaganda purposes,
01:42 in violation of the Olympic Charter.
01:43 In addition, the CIO accuses Moscow of a total lack of respect for the world standards of
01:48 the fight against doping and the integrity of competitions, recalling the concerns
01:52 formulated by the World Anti-Doping Agency (AMA) on the subject of friendship games.
01:56 An event devoid of anti-doping programs whose organization in Montreal could have
02:00 attested to the seriousness.
02:01 Russia remains at the heart of the largest institutionalized cheating in recent sporting history,
02:07 which culminated during the 2014 Sochi Olympics and cost the country to see its anthem and its
02:11 official colors banned from the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 and then from the Beijing Winter Games
02:16 in 2022.
02:17 Macron wants a truce.
02:18 The CIO and Moscow have been maintaining "ice relations" for years, accusing each other
02:24 of instrumentalizing sport for political purposes, and the particularly dry statement adopted
02:28 on Tuesday in Lausanne diverts the prospect of a short-term rapprochement.
02:32 The Russian government had however seemed to adopt a more conciliatory tone last Wednesday,
02:37 the Minister of Sports Oleg Matitsin estimating that it was not necessary to boycott the Paris
02:41 Games this summer, preferring to preserve the possibility of dialoguing and participating
02:45 in competitions.
02:46 But the CIO had refused to comment on Matitsin's and his boss, Thomas Bach's, questions
02:52 on Saturday, had on the contrary raised statements that are becoming more and more aggressive
02:56 on the part of Russia.