Putin Says No Russian Olympic Boycott: Agencies
Zeeshan Mehtab Published December 06, 2017 | 08:40 PM
President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said Russia would not prevent athletes from competing at the 2018 Winter Games under the Olympic flag, after the IOC banned the country over a doping scandal
Moscow, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 06th Dec, 2017 ) :President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said Russia would not prevent athletes from competing at the 2018 Winter Games under the Olympic flag, after the IOC banned the country over a doping scandal.
"We will certainly not declare any boycott, we will not prevent our Olympians from competing, if they want to take part in a personal capacity," news agencies quoted him as saying during a speech at an automobile plant in Nizhny Novgorod, where he also announced he would run for a fourth presidential term next year.
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