The former world champion is in pursuit of ending the season after the Olympics to defend the country from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Then NRK spoke with Pidruchny at the end of February, he was registered with the National Guard and stationed in the city of Ternopil.

Since then, the 30-year-old has been silent, but after he saw the interview Fourcade gave MatchTVhe posted on Instagram.

– I haven’t been able to write here for a long time, but yesterday’s interview that Simon Fourcade gave to Russian journalists infuriated me. So I decided to take a moment to express my thoughts on the role of sport in politics and war, wrote Pidruchnyj and conveyed the following message to Simon Fourcade and his more meritorious younger brother Martin:

– I hope that your children will never feel the pain that Ukrainian children experience. Children who fled their homes, who heard explosions, who saw their mothers being raped and their relatives killed.

Fourcade fights exceptions

Hence the Instagram rant comes just a day after Simon Fourcade, who is the national team coach for French juniors, stated to Russian media that the International Biathlon Union (IBU) was wrong to ban Russian athletes, as a result of the war in Ukraine.

– I think the MOM is just following what the other confederations are doing. Maybe they are under pressure because of that. But I don’t think that expelling Russian athletes and the federation is a good decision.

– Removing the athlete itself is very tight. Therefore, I cannot explain why the Russian Federation now needs to be banned. I’m not a member of that guild, so I can’t influence it. But for me this is the wrong decision.

– Poop sack

So it was this statement that made Dmytro Pidruchny look red. In an Instagram post, he wrote that he regretted selecting Simon’s more famous resident, Martin Fourcade, to the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) athletes committee.

– The great athlete turned out to be a scoundrel, he wrote.

– How can you say that sport is outside politics when there are many athletes who wore Z clothes to a concert in Moscow in support of the war? Are they so innocent and suffer under the rule? Sport has always been a marketing tool for any country, so sport not politics has never been my goal, especially now.

He firmly believes that Russia and Belarus are not allowed to participate in international sports competitions.

– I believe that the entire population of Russia and Belarus is responsible for the people they elected and whose crimes they have forgiven in the past.

NRK has been trying to get comments from Simon and Martin Fourcade. We haven’t been able to get a comment from Simon yet, but Martin Fourcade writes the following:

– My only comment is that I got insulted after me because my brother gave an interview with his own views.

Fourcade: – I do not support war

On Sunday, Simon Fourcade published a lengthy post about it Instagram account where, among other things, he made it clear that he was against war.

– So to make it clear once and for all: I do not support war and I do not support the Russian government. Is that clear enough?!

He further wrote that his brother Martin had nothing to do with the case and should be kept out of the conflict. However, in his post, he emphasized again that he is not in favor of excluding Russian biathletes.

– So, yes, I said that I do not support the decision to exclude Russian athletes from international competitions because in my opinion it is very counterproductive and very hypocritical.

– The overwhelming majority of Russian athletes are against the war, but in fact they cannot say so.