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Wladimir Klitschko calls for IOC to ban Russian athletes

Wladimir Klitschko believes that all Russian athletes should be banned from global competition.

The Ukrainian former world heavyweight boxing champion called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban Russian athletes in light of Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

“The IOC should ban the Russian team now. The war is going now, they cannot participate at the next Olympic games, they cannot participate at any athletic events because this war is represented by Russia,” he told “Piers Morgan Uncensored” on Fox Nation. “Actions speak louder than words. Isolation, and this isolation speaks louder than any word or any line because isolation is painful.