Champions of terror

Russia uses sport as a tool of propaganda and to circumvent sanctions

Total number:

108

Individuals

Updated: 18.11.2024

The participation of russian athletes in international competitions is a means of whitewashing russia`s reputation (sportwashing), spreading disinformation, justifying and legitimizing aggression against Ukraine among foreign audiences and demonstrating russia`s continued presence in the civilized world

Russian officials in international sports committees and federations remain a russian lobby and an element of strategic influence outside russia, providing ways to establish international relations and cooperation bypassing sanctions

What needs to be done:

suspend russian athletes from international competitions
exclude russian sports officials from international organizations

Sport should symbolize peace again

MALTSEV Alexander Evgenievich

Russian artistic swimmer, Honored master of sports of russia, Four-time world champion and six-time European champion, Coach of the State Budgetary Institution of Additional Education of the City of Moscow "Sports School of the Olympic Reserve "Moscow City Physical Culture and Sports Association" of the Moscow City Sports Department

Participant of the FINA Artistic Swimming World Series in 2022. Participant of the Friendship Games in 2022 in Kazan (russia). Participant of the BRICS Sports Games in 2024 in Kazan (russia).
He is a member of the russian national team.
He publicly criticized the decision to ban russian athletes from international competitions, called foreign athletes who support the removal of russians from international competitions as hypocrites, and accused the International Olympic Committee of bias, and the Ukrainian national team of the political undertones of its performance at the World Aquatics Championship in Budapest (Hungary) in 2022.
Spreads "patriotic" propaganda posts on the VK social network, and also uses soviet military symbols in his performance.

BELOBOKOV Alexander Mikhailovich

Ukrainian paralympic athlete, Shot putter, International master of sports in powerlifting

He plays for the so-called "DPR" team and cooperates with the occupation authorities.
Bilobokov's wife holds a position in the illegal law enforcement agencies of the occupation authorities.