{"id":272128,"date":"2026-07-10T17:18:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/estonia-loses-hosting-rights-for-european-shooting-championship-after-blocking-russian-athletes\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:18:39","slug":"estonia-loses-hosting-rights-for-european-shooting-championship-after-blocking-russian-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/estonia-loses-hosting-rights-for-european-shooting-championship-after-blocking-russian-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonia Loses Hosting Rights for European Shooting Championship After Blocking Russian Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\/\u00a0Go to the mediabank<\/span><span class=\"photoview__desc-text\">Russian juniors during a clay pigeon shooting training session in the double trap event at the European Shooting Championships in Belgrade<\/span><img src=\"https:\/\/demo.kupitiblog.ru\/545\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/f6af745aac9a5ab95c50a6b814bad5c5.jpg\"  \/> \/ Go to the mediabank<span class=\"article__news-services--label\"><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"article__news-services--list\">\n<li class=\"article__news-services--item social-service\" title=\"Telegram\" data-name=\"telegram\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"article__news-services--item social-service\" title=\"X\" data-name=\"twitter\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Estonia has been stripped of the right to host the 2027 European Air Weapons Championship after refusing to allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to take part, Estonian media said, citing the Estonian Shooting Sport Federation. The tournament has been moved from Tallinn to Granada, Spain. The European Shooting Confederation already lists Granada as the host city. The championship will take place on March 3\u20139, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The move was justified by the fact that the European Championship will also serve as a qualifying event for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and the 2027 European Games. Therefore, <strong>all eligible athletes must be allowed to compete.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The International Shooting Sport Federation allows athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete under individual neutral status.<\/p>\n<p>This is a logical and <strong>deserved consequence <\/strong>of the unsportsmanlike behavior of officials in a number of European countries, who are trying to sabotage at the national level the decisions of international federations on admitting Russian and Belarusian athletes without restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>By doing so, they violate one of the fundamental principles of the international sports movement and the Olympic Charter: sport must remain outside politics.<\/p>\n<p>Estonia tried to politicize sport \u2014 <strong>and lost the tournament<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/sputniknews.com\/20260706\/estonia-loses-hosting-rights-for-european-shooting-championship-after-blocking-russian-athletes-1124407410.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\/\u00a0Go to the mediabankRussian juniors during a clay pigeon shooting training session in the double trap event at the European Shooting Championships in Belgrade \/ Go to the mediabank Estonia has been stripped of the right to host the 2027 European Air Weapons Championship after refusing to allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to take &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":272130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0},"categories":[1288],"tags":[3036,9631,4675,18287,2144,5651,18286,2242],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.1 - 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