PARIS : Olympic champion Nikita Nagornyy found it unacceptable that Russian gymnasts were barred from competing at the Paris Games due to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, saying his country's exclusion would be remembered as one of the worst moments of Olympic history.
FILE PHOTO: Russian gymnast Nikita Nagornyy attends a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in Saint Petersburg, Russia June 16, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File PhotoPARIS : Olympic champion Nikita Nagornyy found it unacceptable that Russian gymnasts were barred from competing at the Paris Games due to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, saying his country's exclusion would be remembered as one of the worst moments of Olympic history.
"I'm very disappointed that we've found ourselves in this crisis as part of sport and could not compete and prove ourselves," Nagornyy wrote on Instagram on the opening day of the Olympic men's gymnastics competition at Bercy Arena in Paris. Nagornyy, who added that he wished luck to the gymnasts competing in Paris, took bronze in the all-around and the horizontal bar in Tokyo, as well as silver in the team event at Rio 2016.
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