Nancy Faeser threatens the Russians with a visa ban.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser does not want Russian athletes to compete in Germany. PDO
German Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser proposes a drastic measure to prevent Russian athletes from competing if the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allows the country to return to international competition.
At the end of March, the IOC board recommended that individual athletes from Russia and Belarus be accepted back into international competitions without country codes.
– Countries that organize major sports events are not powerless. With visas, you can control whether Russians are actually allowed to participate, Faeser said Sportschau website by.
– If we organize international competitions in Germany, we act accordingly. We will always have a clear position here.
Faeser has previously said that the change made by the IOC in relation to Russians and Belarusians is “a slap in the face of Ukrainian athletes”. In his opinion, being at the Olympics would endanger the principles of the Olympic idea.