Ex-Olympic winner Zhurova claims judges maintain bias for Japan, warns ‘we all know what would occur’ if selections passed off in Russia

Ex-Olympic champ Svetlana Zhurova has claimed that Japan has been awarded medals on the Video games as a type of gratitude for persevering with as hosts regardless of the pandemic, including that the judging could be scandalized if it was in Russia.

Now a State Duma deputy after turning to politics following her illustrious velocity skating profession, Zhurova believes that judges on the Video games have opted to award wins to residence athletes after they have been concerned in tight contests with visiting opponents.

The four-time Olympian and gold medalist within the 500m on the Athens Video games in 2004 additionally feels that Japan has been handled extra generously as a competing nation as a result of leaders agreed to go forward with the Video games, continuing with the spectacle regardless of public protests amid a state of emergency being declared in Tokyo and different areas.

“If the Olympics had been in Russia and there was such officiating, [especially] in favor of the hosts, we all know what would have occurred,” Zhurova informed Championat, in a touch there could be uproar as anti-Russian sentiment seeped via.

“I believe that many individuals argue that means: the Japanese are so sorry they discovered themselves in such a scenario with a pandemic, [if] they [the International Olympic Committee] can [show their] gratitude within the type of a number of medals, let it’s.

“On the whole, we perceive that judges are folks too, [but] if there’s a alternative [to] give the medal to the Japanese or another person, they may give it to the host.” 

The criticism comes amid Chinese language social media customers attacking Japanese athletes on-line after accusations that judges have been biased in the direction of them in occasions such because the desk tennis combined doubles last and the boys’s inventive gymnastics all-around occasion.

“If Japan hadn’t held the Olympics, the world would possibly nonetheless sympathize with it. Now, not solely is the Olympic spirit absent, the anti-Japanese sentiment has been woke up,” balked Shanghai-based vlogger Yin Jiliang, who boats greater than one million followers on fashionable native social media platform Weibo.

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