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.