INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has actually postponed till further notification the World Friendship Games, seen as Moscows alternative to
the Olympic Games and originally indicated to take place this year, according to a Kremlin decree published Monday.The competition
extensively viewed as Russias response to being prohibited from the Paris Olympics due to its intrusion of Ukraine was meant to occur in
Yekaterinburg this September but in the summer season held off till an undefined date in 2025
The decree Monday said that the World Friendship Games were delayed till a special decision by the Russian president.The International
Olympic Committee (IOC) had actually called the Friendship Games a cynical effort to politicize sport and gotten in touch with nations not
to participate.Ukraine had said Moscow wished to use the occasion for propaganda purposes.Russia had actually accused the IOC of
neo-Nazism for prohibiting its professional athletes and those of its ally Belarus from completing under their national flags in
Paris.Russia had in 2015 said it would restore the Friendship Games held in the 1980s in the Soviet Union, when some socialist countries had
actually boycotted the Los Angeles Olympics.
