All Russians and Belarusians are barred from participating in the Wimbledon tennis tournament, including those who have spoken out against Vladimir Putin and Russia. To echo the same sentiment, a Ukrainian tennis star has demanded that Russian players be subjected to ideological purity test.
Elina Svitolina, a Ukrainian tennis player, has urged that players from Russia and Belarus be subjected to ideological purity tests before being permitted to participate in international competitions.
All Russian and Belarusian competitors will be banned if they do not sign a succession of comments on politics and the war in Ukraine, according to the former world number three.
“We noticed that some Russian and Belarusian players at some point vaguely mentioned the war, but never clearly stating that Russia and Belarus started it on the territory of Ukraine,” wrote Svitolina on Twitter.
She is assumedly dissatisfied with Russian and Belarusian players who simply call for tranquility...