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Sergy Rikhter text, Indonesia—Israel relations#History
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In 2023 Israeli Olympic shooter Sergy Rikhter withdrew from international competition in Jakarta after the ISSF refused to allow him to compete with any symbols representing Rikhter's home country of Israel. In order to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, athletes are required to have participated in at least two ISSF Championships during the Qualifying period, reach a Minimum Qualifying Score (MQS), and secure a place in one of five quotas within a series of four World Cup meets, of which Jakarta is the first in this cycle. Previously Rikhter competed in Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and won gold at the 2019 European Games. Reportedly, World Cup organizers informed Rikhter and the Israeli federation they would only allow him to participate with his weapon if he competes with identification symbols of the ISSF or the flag of the International Olympic Committee. Rikhter rebuffed the ISSF and chose not to compete in the World Cup, in part stating,

"I will never accept to participate in a competition without the [IOC Country Code] ISR on my competition suit, on my personal rifle and on the results screen…I start the most important year on the way to Paris, when my opponents take a professional advantage over me due to political problems. If the Olympic movement, which advocates the existence of sports without distinctions of nationality, religion, race and sex, does not support its ideology, then what is its value? I don't understand how the state is allowed to organize some sort of competition with a national identity restriction."