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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Sport
Benjamin Goddard

Ukrainian tennis star has lost “moral strength” as she slams chiefs over Russia stance

A Ukrainian tennis star who has led the argument that athletes from Russian and Belarus should be banned from competing says she has lost "moral strength" to continue battling sport chiefs.

Former world No.3 Elina Svitolina says she has had "so many meetings" with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) along with both the men's and women's tennis organisations. Since the war in Ukraine began over a year ago there has been no ban of athletes from Russian or their allies Belarus competing in tennis - unlike in other sports.

Wimbledon was the only major tournament which prevented athletes from both countries from playing at SW19 resulting in a fine and ranking points being withdrawn from the tournament.

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