{"id":44925,"date":"2022-12-15T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T13:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/lukasenka-considers-sports-ministry-reshuffle-over-athletes-poor-performance\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"lukasenka-considers-sports-ministry-reshuffle-over-athletes-poor-performance","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/44925\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0141uka\u0161enka considers sports ministry reshuffle over athletes\u2019 poor performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n <b>December 15, <span>BPN<\/span>. <\/b>Sanctions against Belarusian athletes have not had a positive effect on their performance, Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka told senior sports officials at the December 15 meeting.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t &#8220;If people [athletes] see that they are unfairly punished, they make an effort to show even better results,&#8221; the Telegram channel <span>Pul Pervogo<\/span> quoted him as saying. &#8220;Are they making an effort? They don&#8217;t.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Sports that receive more attention from authorities show even worse results, he added, blaming athletes for failing to win dozens of Olympic medals. &#8220;We used to have them [medals] when there were no sports facilities [in the country] at all,&#8221; he noted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t \u0141uka\u0161enka has also announced an upcoming staff reshuffle at the Ministry of Sports and Tourism in early 2023.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Belarus had a record medal haul at 17 Olympic at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. At the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, the Belarusian team earned only seven.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t On February 28, four days after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army, the International Olympic Committee recommended that athletes and officials from Belarus and Russia should be excluded from international competitions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t The recommendation was implemented immediately and on a mass scale. Later, some federations made it clear that only the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine would enable Belarusian and Russian athletes to compete in international events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 15, BPN. Sanctions against Belarusian athletes have not had a positive effect on their performance, Alaksandr \u0141uka\u0161enka told senior sports officials at the December 15 meeting. &#8220;If people [athletes] see that they are unfairly punished, they make an effort to show even better results,&#8221; the Telegram channel Pul Pervogo quoted him as saying. &#8220;Are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-44925","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u0141uka\u0161enka considers sports ministry reshuffle over athletes\u2019 poor performance | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 15, BPN. 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