Russia’s Foreign Ministry has announced that some of Canada’s famous athletes, like Olympic gold medalists Tessa Virtue and Hayley Wickenheiser, have been included in a list of 333 Canadians prohibited from entering Russia.
Most of the athletes who made the list are retired Canadian Olympians that signed a recent letter urging the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) to support a ban of Russia and Belarus from competing at the 2024 Paris Summer Games unless Russia stops attacking Ukraine.
A lot of international sports federations have excluded athletes from Russia and Belarus since Russia invaded Ukraine last year.
The sanctions are symbolic, with Russia prohibited from hosting major sporting events and Canadian athletes having no reason to go to the country.
While announcing the ban on its website, the Russian Foreign Ministry said: “In view of the anti-Russian sanctions periodically imposed by the Trudeau regime against officials, politicians, experts, journalists, cultural figures and athletes from Russia, as well as anyone who does not suit the Ottawa ‘mainstream’ and the neo-Nazi authorities supported by it in Kiev, entry into the Russian Federation closes permanently to 333 Canadian citizens.”
Others Canadian on the list include the Governor General of Canada Mary Simon and members of the Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia provincial legislatures.
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