Russian Invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of Ukrainian Olympic athletes and their unique struggles of boycotting | dG1fRmVJY08ta3VKbm8
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00:00Before the process itself, at this moment, you don't really think about anything.
00:07The whole negative is washed away from you and everything is bad.
00:30It's absurd.
00:31Athletes with a Russian or a Belarusian passport must compete only as individual neutral athletes.
00:41Any flags, white, neutral, they are in the blood of Ukrainian citizens.
00:46The IOC basically says nobody has the right to compete at the Olympics, essentially, unless we say it's okay.
00:54There is no place for aggressive states like Russia and anyone who's helping them, like Belarus, in the peaceful Olympics.
01:01Russian athletes, they support openly or they stay silent, which is equal to support.
01:07I don't respect that.
01:25I don't know why Russia is invading our country and what it needs.
01:30To kill children, people, just like that. That's their goal. To destroy.
01:35Ukrainians have no place to prepare, no electricity, no heat.
01:40There was an explosion, I was knocked down from the ground.
01:43From the moment I got up to this moment, I never thought about the fact that my life was over.
01:50London Marathon is very important.
01:52Roman wants to show to society that after we've lost, life will not end.
01:59I would like the International Olympic Committee to come to the territory where the entire cities are destroyed
02:08so that they understand that it is impossible to talk about the equality of athletes in this situation.
02:14Will the IOC let everything slide with Russia because of what they've done to help the movement?
02:22I don't want to go out with them even for a moment, for a competition,
02:29shake their hands or fight, for example, with them.
02:35We have the motivation to show even more strength and power in competitions.
02:41It's very difficult, but in any case, all wars end.
02:47Ukraine will prevail, Ukraine will survive.
02:50The question is how many lives we will have to lose to win.