The Worldwide Handball Federation rebuked Norway’s Kare Geir Lio, Russian officers stated
Norwegian Handball Federation president Kare Geir Lio has been warned by his sport’s world governing physique the IHF after issuing anti-Russian calls for to the group, officers in Russia have stated.
The press service of the Russian Handball Federation introduced on Monday that the Ethics Fee of the Worldwide Handball Federation (IHF) had cautioned Lio over his habits.
The IHF has suspended Russian and Belarusian groups from its competitions due to the battle in Ukraine, though Lio had wished Russia to be expelled fully from the IHF and European Handball Federation, and contracts ripped up with Russian and Belarusian sponsors, TASS reported.
“The code of ethics should make sure that all IHF members observe and help moral conduct in our sport. Nevertheless, the president of the Norwegian Handball Federation has violated this rule,” the Russian Handball Federation quoted an IHF letter as saying.
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The pinnacle of the Russian Handball Federation, Sergey Shishkarev, stated he was grateful to the IHF after it was known as on to behave.
“I’m grateful to the Worldwide Handball Federation for objectivity and for the truth that they thought of our enchantment from the standpoint of frequent sense,” Shishkarev informed Match TV.
“This can be a small, if not a victory, then a triumph of the concept that sport ought to be exterior of politics.
“I hope that there will probably be no extra such statements addressed to us. It’s essential to resolve issues within the sports activities enviornment, and never in verbal battles. Russophobic sentiments should be stopped.”
The IHF imposed a ban on Russia and Belarus in March following a advice from the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) on the finish of February that athletes from the 2 international locations shouldn’t be allowed to compete at world occasions.
The choice meant, amongst different issues, that Russia was banned from the 2022 IHF Girls’s Junior and Youth World Championships in Slovenia, and the 2022 IHF Males’s Seaside Handball World Championship in Greece.
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Norwegian officers have been among the many most ardent campaigns for Russian bans throughout some sports activities, together with snowboarding, the place they had been seen as pressuring the Worldwide Ski Federation (FIS) into its blanket suspension on Russian and Belarusian rivals after they had been initially cleared to compete as neutrals.
