Latvia has abandoned the decision to stop funding Latvian athletes who compete in the same events as Russian and Belarusian athletes. The decision has been a very controversial topic that Jelena Ostapenko commented on during the BNP Paribas Open, even though the amount of money in her case was negligible.
Anda Caksa, the Minister of Education and Science, announced that there will be no withholding of benefits to the Latvian athletes and that they will be receiving the full amount of funding. In case of Ostapenko, the 2017 Roland Garros champion who has earned over $12 million in her tennis career, it is debatable why she would even be receiving approx.