Ilana Kratiş, Israel’s first Olympic wrestler, will compete in the 69kg weight class at Rio 2016. (Credit: AFP)
A new sequel to the war between Israel and Hamas has erupted in the field of sports, as numerous demonstrations by extremists mark the global situation. Israel’s wrestling team will not compete in the World Olympic Qualifiers, which will be held in Istanbul starting May 9. The 13 cases were ordered by the Shin Bet security agency in response to rising tensions between governments.
Because this is the last match in which a ticket to Paris is being contested, binding measures have meant that five wrestlers from Hebrew-speaking countries (Joshua Stuart Finesilver, , Mitchell Louis Feinsilver, Yuri Kalashnikov, Melkam Fetene and Ilana Kratysh – unless you are a beneficiary of the invitational slot of the International Federation, United World Wrestling (UWW).
In this regard, Kratiş, who became Israel’s first ever Olympian at Rio 2016, expressed doubts about the decision and demanded: “We hope that the Israel Federation (IWF) and the Olympic Committee (IOC) will demand.” We hope that the world federations will consider us and give us free tickets to the Olympics. ” Furthermore, she separated athletes from the war, stating that “athletes should not be harmed by this situation.”
Olympic games will be held at the Champ de Mars Arena. (Credit: Paris 2024)
The only ecumenical pre-Olympic tournament will award a total of 54 non-nominal spots. The breakdown is that he will have three tickets for each of his six categories in his three schemes: Men’s Wrestling, Women’s Wrestling, and Men’s Greco-Roman Wrestling. Previously, the continental qualifiers and the 2023 World Championships in Belgrade were awarded eighth and fifth place in their weight classes, respectively.
The withdrawal from the competition was followed by Turkey suspending commercial ties with Israel, including import-export ties, which were subsequently severed with Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz calling Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan a “dictator.” It was announced the next day. port.
President Erdoğan and Hamas’s political director after the April 20 summit meeting. (Credit: President of the Republic of Turkey)
Since March, Turkey has been added to the list of countries that Israel warns against traveling to due to the potential risk of terrorist attacks. According to the report, Hamas political director Ismail Haniyeh has been in Istanbul precisely since his meeting with President Erdoğan on April 20th. At the end of October, the Israeli government ordered the withdrawal of the entire diplomatic corps from the Ankara embassy, including Ambassador Irit Lilian, after the Turkish president weighed in on the Holocaust and the bombing of Gaza.
At the end of April, Thomas Bach announced that he would send an invitation to the Palestinian National Olympic Committee in case of any failure to qualify at the stadium, considering that the damage to sports facilities prevented the proper training of athletes. However, the reasons for this are different from those in Palestine. What happened to Israeli wrestlers? So far, the IOC president has not addressed the matter.
