{"id":20216,"date":"2024-03-13T10:40:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T10:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/river-gas.com\/?p=20216"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:40:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T10:40:52","slug":"russian-gymnast-ivan-kuliak-says-he-has-no-regrets-over-wearing-a-symbol-in-support-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/river-gas.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/russian-gymnast-ivan-kuliak-says-he-has-no-regrets-over-wearing-a-symbol-in-support-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian gymnast Ivan Kuliak says he has no regrets over wearing a symbol in support of the"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Russian gymnast Ivan Kuliak says he has no regrets over wearing a symbol in support of the  on the podium following a World Cup event in Doha on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Kuliak attached a letter &#8216;Z&#8217; to his chest before receiving his bronze medal in the parallel bars, an event won by Ukraine&#8217;s Illia Kovtun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The letter has been seen daubed on the sides of Russian tanks, and has come to be regarded as a sign of support for the invasion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"perform-player\" data-tracking-id=\"432bdd91ecc8aae4071ce50cb5.xsohe0a9vwom1aofo5is4krre\" data-related-player=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The 20-year-old&#8217;s move was condemned as &#8216;shocking behaviour&#8217; by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG), which has asked its Gymnastics Ethics Foundation to launch an investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But Kuliak, who faces the prospect of a lengthy ban, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.groundreport.com\/?s=unrepentant\">unrepentant<\/a> on Tuesday,  <a href=\"https:\/\/teknokrat.ac.id\/\">Best Private University<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/search.un.org\/results.php?query=telling%20Russia\">telling Russia<\/a> Today: &#8216;If there was a second chance and I had a choice whether to go out with the letter &#8220;Z&#8221; on my chest or not, I would do the same.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I saw it on our military and looked at what this symbol means.It turned out to be &#8220;for victory&#8221; and &#8220;for peace&#8221;. I just wanted to show my position.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;As an athlete, I will always fight for victory and play for peace.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Prior to the event in Doha, the FIG had announced that all Russian gymnasts and officials would be banned from international events from March 7 until further notice in line with global sporting sanctions against the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"artSplitter mol-img-group\" style=\"style\">\n<div class=\"mol-img\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\">  <\/div>\n<p> <noscript> <img id=\"i-9071729e2731cae\" website height=\"507\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Russian gymnast\u00a0Ivan Kuliak insists he has no regrets over wearing a national war symbol\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Russian gymnast\u00a0Ivan Kuliak insists he has no regrets over wearing a national war symbol<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div data-track-module=\"am-related_carousel^related_carousel\" data-track-selector=\".rotator-panels a:not([class*=external])\" data-dm-rotator-rotate=\"false\" data-track-pos=\"static\" data-preferred-shared-network-enabled=\"\" data-dm-rotator-auto-init=\"\" id=\"p-22\" class=\"related-carousel with-fb-or-tw news\" data-dm-rotator-active-class=\"active\" data-dm-rotator-page-count=\"1.0\" data-dm-social-article-auto-init=\"\" data-dm-rotator-page-size=\"1\">\n<div class=\"rotator bdrcc\">\n<div class=\"rotator-title\">\n<h2>RELATED ARTICLES<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"rotator-pages link-xocc\">\n<li class=\"rotator-prev\"><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li class=\"rotator-next\"><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<ul class=\"rotator-panels link-bogr1 linkro-ccox\">\n<li>     <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p><b><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p><h2>Share this article<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"share\"><span class=\"wai\">Share<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"count\"><span>2k<\/span> shares<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"art-ins mol-factbox floatRHS news\" data-version=\"2\" id=\"mol-575c3bf0-9ee3-11ec-9ce0-7348f1679816\" website gymnast Ivan Kuliak has no regrets over wearing a war symbol \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian gymnast Ivan Kuliak says he has no regrets over wearing a symbol in support of the on the podium following a World Cup event in Doha on Saturday. Kuliak attached a letter &#8216;Z&#8217; to his chest before receiving his bronze medal in the parallel bars, an event won by Ukraine&#8217;s Illia Kovtun.\u00a0 The letter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14637,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[2033],"class_list":["post-20216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-family-home-security","tag-best-private-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/river-gas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/river-gas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/river-gas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/river-gas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/river-gas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/river-gas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20217,"href":"https:\/\/river-gas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20216\/revisions\/20217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/river-gas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/river-gas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/river-gas.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}