On March 7, Beijing time, following the controversy caused by the forced awards of Russian and Ukrainian athletes to separately, the award ceremony of the men's parallel bars in the Gymnastics World Cup Doha also attracted attention. This time, the champion Ukrainian player and the third runner-up Russian player not only received the award on the same stage, but also stood together for a group photo.
In the men's parallel bars final, Ukraine's Illia Kovtun not only had an advantage in D points, but also finished quite well, winning the championship with 15.166 points. Uzbekistan athlete Milad Karimi and Russian rising star Ivan Kuliak finished second and third respectively. At the award ceremony, the Ukrainian and Russian teams were not allowed to receive the award separately, as the women's high and low bars of the previous matchday did. In the group photo session of the award ceremony, the Russian players also stood with the Ukrainian players, and the love picture made netizens leave messages and praises: "This is the original appearance of competitive sports", "All are children under 20 years old, I hope that the right and wrong off the field will not affect their training competition", "This is the beauty of the kind of competitive sports I am familiar with and want to see".
According to foreign media, after the gymnastics World Cup Doha qualification round, the Russian team suddenly received a suspension notice, although they won the first place in several individual qualification tournaments. Later, it was the president of the International Gymnastics Federation, Morinari Watanabe, who personally decided to let the Russian players continue to play, postponing the ban to do so after the Doha leg, so that they could appear in the final. In addition, the leader of the Russian gymnastics team also responded to the fact that the women's high and low bars were awarded separately, she did not think that this was the fault of the 16-year-old Ukrainian girl, she may not understand the grievances behind it, mostly influenced by domestic public opinion and instigated by other adults.