This is according to the Press Secretary of Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation Sarhan Musaly.

He said they immediately contacted the French Wrestling Federation: "They said, 'Excuse me, this is a logo that was made earlier and there are no flags of some of the contestants. The logo has the flags of countries that have competed before.' Therefore, it was not taken into account. The logo has the flags of countries that do not participate in this competition. The same logo was used in 2020. It was just careless and apologized to us. The organizational problem could be that we did not have a flag in the competition. There will be no problem with that."

The federation official added that they did not see any cold attitude from the organizers:"We did not feel anything negative. In general, if there was a problem, they would not issue visas to our teams, they would create problems for their participation. We also looked at the archives, it is possible to see post-2014 competitions on the World Wrestling Union website. Until 2019 this competition did not receive Grand Prix status. In 2019, 2020 and 2021, it was already organized with the status of the Grand Prix. That is, until then it was not considered serious competition. Until 2019, it was held only among women and freestyle wrestlers. In 2020 and 2021, each wrestling We participated in this competition for the first time in 2020. At that time, the Greco-Roman wrestling team participated. This year, both our Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestlers will compete. The organizers have already eliminated this shortcoming. and the Azerbaijani flag was placed on the logo. "

Note that the Grand Prix will be held on January 15-17.