Kuliak took bronze in the Apparatus World Cup parallel bars final in Doha, with a letter Z attached to his shirt as he stood next to Ukraine s Illia Kovtun, who won gold
Russia-Ukraine war news latest updates: Russian gymnast Ivan Kuliak, who placed ‘Z’ on his uniform’, claimed that he did so because of the behaviour of Ukrainian athletes.
The Russian athlete who wore an inflammatory letter “Z” on his leotard while receiving a medal alongside an athlete from Ukraine which is being invaded by Russian forces said he’d do it again.