Daniel Marinov (Russia)
Sport: Artistic Gymnastics
Status: Russian national team athlete
Russian gymnast Daniel Marinov publicly posted a video on Instagram expressing support for Russian aggression against Ukraine. In the same publication, he displayed the St. George’s Ribbon, a symbol widely used by the Russian military and propaganda apparatus.
The public use of military and war-related symbols, as well as expressions of support for aggression, directly violates the neutrality requirements imposed on individual neutral athletes with Russian or Belarusian passports.
Sources:
– Official letter of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Gymnastics Federation: