Tessa Virtue, Mary Simon among 333 Canadians banned from entering Russia – National | 24CA News
Some of Canada’s greatest recognized athletes, together with Olympic gold medallists Tessa Virtue and Hayley Wickenheiser, have been included on a listing of 333 Canadians banned from getting into Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated on Wednesday.
Most of the athletes on the checklist are retired Canadian Olympians who signed a letter final month urging the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) to assist a ban of Russia and Belarus from participating on the 2024 Paris Summer Games except Russia withdraws from Ukraine.
Many worldwide sports activities federations have excluded athletes from the 2 international locations since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine final yr, which it calls a particular navy operation.
The sanctions are principally symbolic, with Russia banned from internet hosting main sporting occasions and Canadian athletes having no purpose to journey to the nation.
“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,” the Russian Foreign Ministry stated on its web site.
Others on the checklist barred from getting into Russia embrace the Governor General of Canada Mary Simon and members of the Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia provincial legislatures.
