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Fetisov: Isinbayeva May Now See Missed Opportunity
Slava Fetisov suggested Yelena Isinbayeva may have realized the IOC athletes' commission missed its chance to defend Russian athletes' rights.
She sat on the IOC Athletes' Commission for eight years, elected in August 2016, with her term ending after the 2024 Olympics.
Fetisov told RIA Novosti:
Former mixed martial arts fighter Jeff Monson said on 26 August that her statements on political pressure on the IOC were timid, though he agreed that such pressure on sporting bodies had been real.
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