The Russian team was not allowed to the Olympics in Pyeongchang

The International Olympic Committee refused to allow the Russian team to participate in the Winter Olympiad in Pyeongchang. The corresponding message appeared on the IOC website following the results of the meeting of his executive committee in Lausanne on Wednesday evening.

Russian athletes, including those involved in team sports, are allowed to perform at the games in personal quality - under the neutral Olympic flag. The team is given the name "Olympic athletes from Russia", and when awarding Russians will sound the Olympic anthem.

Only those Russians who were not previously disqualified for doping or convicted of violation of anti -doping rules will be able to take part in the Olympics. Thus, RBC, biathlonist Valery Loginov, notes , although he has already left for the disqualification period, he will not be allowed to be admitted to Pyeongchang.

Another condition for the admission is the passage of tests appointed by the special IOC commission.

The Olympic Committee of Russia is suspended from participation in the Games. The membership of the President of the OKR Alexander Zhukov in the IOC is suspended.

None of the functionaries of the Ministry of Sports of Russia will be accredited to the upcoming Olympics. For the former head of the Ministry of Sports, now Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko and the former deputy head of the Ministry of Sports of Yuri Nagorniy, a lifelong ban on accreditation was introduced.

The IOC also reserved the right to impose sanctions against other persons involved in the Russian doping program.

OKR was recovered $ 15 million to create an international anti -doping committee.

At a press conference , which was held according to the results of the meeting of the IOC Executive Committee, Swiss lawyer Samuel Schmid, who headed the commission to investigate Russian doping violations, said: "Systematic manipulation of anti-doping rules and procedures was carried out. This activity was actively conducted during the 2014 Olympics in Sochi."

“The fight against doping was part of the responsibility zone of the Russian Ministry of Sports,” Schmid continued. “Therefore, the Minister of Sports is responsible for this failure in the fight against doping.”

In turn, the IOC President Thomas Bach noted: "We decided on proportional sanctions, trying to protect" pure "athletes." For a complete ban on Russian athletes, there is no reason to participate in games, he added. According to Bach, "the boycott never helped to achieve anything."

However, the President of the IOC called the measures necessary. He regarded the Russian doping program as an "unprecedented attack on the honesty of the Olympic Games."

Bach also rejected suspicions of the political background of the decision of the executive committee. “There was no policy in this verdict,” he assured. “We would not allow ourselves to fall under anyone's influence, making a decision on sports.”

With Vladimir Putin, the President of the IOC added, he did not discuss the participation of Russian athletes in games.