‘Isolation speaks louder’: Klitschko calls for Russian Olympic ban

Ukrainian former boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko has called on the International Olympic Committee to ban Russian athletes. “I think the IOC should ban the Russian team now,” Mr Klitschko told Sky News Australia host Piers Morgan. “They cannot participate at any athletic events, because this war is represented by Russia. Mr Klitschko said while the move will be “painful for athletes”, isolation “speaks louder than any line and any word”. “The money that Russia is getting, filling up their budget, they’re getting and producing more weapons and financing their soldiers that is today killing us Ukrainians,” he said. “And that must be stopped with isolation – and athletes is not an exception.”