Ambassador of the International Skateboarding Federation Vdovin said that its president sees the future of the organization with Russia

President of the Russian Skateboarding Federation Ilya Vdovin believes that the Russian Federation may soon return to the international arena in this sport if the International Skateboarding Federation (World Skate) helps.

Vdovin is an ambassador for World Skate.

– There are very few competitions now, and the selection for the Olympic Games in Paris 2024 does not look very serious.

In the discipline “street” this year there was one competition, but in the discipline “park” – not a single one. The International Federation would gladly give us some tournaments, if not for the pressure that it is being exerted from outside.

As the president of World Skate put it, “we are too small to be at the forefront, but we see our future with Russia.” He said that they had a very tough conversation with him: they say, everyone stood in a row, and you stand up. Otherwise there will be consequences.

They are not ready to be the first to open the doors to Russia, because skateboarding is a very young Olympic sport and cannot yet take on the function of a battering ram in front of the International Olympic Committee. It’s not their weight class.

But with such a lackluster plan for qualifying competitions for Paris 2024, something urgently needs to be done. And this is our chance.

We can convey to the international federation that we are ready to give her a shoulder in this situation, but then she will also have to turn her face to us,” Vdovin said.Newspaper.Ru“.

At the end of February, the executive committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommended that the federations ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from participating in competitions due to the situation in Ukraine. Many federations followed these recommendations.

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