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Russia was suspended from the 2018 Olympics. Online
How officials and athletes reacted to the news from the IOC
What happened: the IOC banned Russia from participating in the Olympics
What will happen now: Russians can compete under a neutral flag
Will they perform: Not yet known
December 5, 2017 8:54:57 PM
So, Russia was not allowed to the Olympics. Collecting reactions live.
December 5, 2017 8:55:29 PM
VGTRK has already announced that it will not show the Olympics in Pyeongchang.
("Interfax")
December 5, 2017 8:56:33 PM
Olympic champion and State Duma deputy Irina Rodnina, member of the United Russia General Council.
December 5, 2017 8:59:12 PM
The main thing by 22:00 Moscow time
- Russia was not allowed to the Olympics.
- Individual athletes may be allowed under a neutral flag, they will be presented as "Olympic athletes from Russia."
- Some Russian officials and doctors are banned from visiting the Olympics, for Vitaly Mutko the ban is for life. Zhukov's membership in the IOC has been suspended.
- The anthem of Russia will not be played in Pyeongchang.
- They will not show the Olympics in Russia either.
December 5, 2017 21:00:43
Presidential candidates pulled up
December 5, 2017 9:01:58 PM
Frame "Rain"
December 5, 2017 9:02:56 PM
A few reactions from the State Duma:
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The Olympics are losing their high status - Liberal Democratic Party
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Participation of Russians under a neutral flag will be incorrect - Communist Party
December 5, 2017 9:05:57 PM
"Championship" writes that tomorrow Putin will announce a decision regarding the participation of Russians in the Olympics under a neutral flag.
December 5, 2017 21:06:30
“I think that every athlete must decide this for himself,” Elena Vyalbe, a resident of the Russian Ski Racing Federation, told Interfax.
December 5, 2017 9:07:46 PM
Voting details
December 5, 2017 21:10:00
Russia should boycott the Olympics, says State Duma Vice Speaker Igor Lebedev (he is also a member of the executive committee of the RFU).
December 5, 2017 9:11:18 PM
The first deputy head of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, Franz Klintsevich, is of the same opinion (Interfax took comments from both).
December 5, 2017 21:13:40
What Samuel Schmid said at the press conference:
“We have never experienced manipulation on this scale.
Russia should spend $15 million on an independent testing body.
- The decision is not based on the words of Rodchenkov, but on scientific evidence and correspondence.
December 5, 2017 9:14:58 PM
“Everything went to the fact that our athletes will be allowed to the Olympics in a neutral status,” Alexander Zubkov, head of the Bobsleigh Federation, told TASS. - Now the athletes themselves have to decide whether or not to go to the Games in South Korea. The leadership of the Bobsleigh Federation will help those athletes who want to compete in Pyeongchang. It's clear."
Zubkov was stripped of the medals of the 2014 Games.
Dec 5, 2017 9:16:20 PM
Emotional performance of biathlete Yana Romanova on Match TV.
December 5, 2017 9:16:55 PM
State Duma Vice Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy also believes that there is no need to go (Channel One).
December 5, 2017 9:19:48 PM
While there is a moment, here are two materials that will help you understand what is happening:
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Profile of Vitaly Mutko - about how he ended up as the Minister of Sports
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Athlete Sergei Shubenkov on how to perform under a neutral flag
December 5, 2017 21:22:00
From Sports.Ru online: Grigory Rodchenkov is proud of the work of the IOC. This was announced by the lawyer of the informant Jim Walden.
December 5, 2017 9:22:23 PM
There is still some illusory hope for a different outcome.
December 5, 2017 9:22:47 PM
By the way, the Russian national hockey team (if it goes at all) will not be able to be called the “Russian national team”.
December 5, 2017 9:28:44 PM
Clarification of the reaction of the head of the State Duma Sports Committee, Mikhail Degtyarev from the Liberal Democratic Party (Channel One): “The decision will be made by the meeting of Olympians themselves. It will take place on December 12th. All Olympians will come and decide for themselves.”
December 5, 2017 9:29:16 PM
Vasily Utkin against the boycott of the Olympics
December 5, 2017 9:29:59 PM
Chairman of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation Mikhail Fedotov: “If there are no allegations of doping against Russian athletes, why should they compete under the Olympic flag, and not under the flag of their country, how do they differ from clean athletes from other countries in this case ? Maybe then all national teams should compete under the Olympic flag. I would personally welcome it."
("Interfax")
December 5, 2017 9:33:36 PM
All the most important of the IOC decision on one screen is here .
December 5, 2017 9:35:45 PM
Even Lokomotiv President Ilya Gerkus ( Championship ) urges not to "humiliate" and not go to the Olympics.
December 5, 2017 9:37:39 PM
On Channel One they claim that if Russia declares a boycott of the Games, the country will be suspended for at least two Olympic cycles.
December 5, 2017 9:40:33 PM
Meanwhile, Valery Gazzaev (a former coach, now deputy chairman of the sports committee in the State Duma) and the first deputy chairman of the A Just Russia faction, Mikhail Yemelyanov, joined the idea of boycotting the Olympics.
December 5, 2017 9:40:57 PM
But commentator Georgy Cherdantsev believes that it is necessary to go.
December 5, 2017 9:42:55 PM
Suspended Alexander Zhukov says that, perhaps, on the last day of the Olympics, athletes will still be able to go under the Russian flag. But it is not exactly.
(“Russia-24”, she broadcasts from Zhukov’s press conference)
December 5, 2017 9:44:01 PM
Sports.Ru CEO on who is to blame:
December 5, 2017 9:45:35 PM
“I ask you not to condemn the guys who decide to compete under a neutral flag. We know that they are Russians, and we need to support them, ”the words of two-time Olympic champion, biathlete Sergei Chepikov. (TASS)
December 5, 2017 9:47:56 PM
"Chempionat.com" promptly saw that several Russian athletes did not meet the IOC admission criteria, who would like to compete at the Olympics, but now they cannot. These are speed skaters Denis Yuskov and Pavel Kulizhnikov, as well as biathletes Alexander Loginov and Irina Starykh.
All of them have been caught doping before.
December 5, 2017 9:49:13 PM
“I don’t know how other athletes will react, but I didn’t prepare for many years to go and compete for a country other than my own. Going to the Olympics just to go is somehow unsportsmanlike. So I still can’t say about my performance, I haven’t talked to the coaches yet,” ski jumper Irina Avvakumova.
(TASS)
December 5, 2017 9:50:45 PM
Figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva (and a potential favorite for the 2018 Games), who went to speak at an IOC meeting, was asked if she would go to compete under a neutral flag herself. She replied that "this will be discussed and it is early to ask such questions."
- Do you want it yourself?
It's too early to ask such questions.
December 5, 2017 10:00:52 PM
Alexander Smyshlyaev, who won bronze in Sochi in freestyle, commented on the situation to Meduza:
“We are in Finland now. The four of us sat and watched the broadcast with the team. Was there at least one censored word when the decision was announced? No, it was not. But, of course, it was expected, as for me. Now there is only one feeling - depression. We are all very upset.
The question is quite complicated, how to act under a neutral flag. I can't say anything yet. We need to think it over, understand the mechanics, what actions are being taken, how my sports federation reacts, how the state reacts.
What if they boycott? Most likely support. But of course it's hard. I was going to go, I was preparing, especially since I got injured a year ago and after the Olympics I was going to end my sports career. And then - it is deprived. I have porridge in my head. But for now, it's best not to think about it. I am such a person that I try not to overload my head too much. It will take some time, we will wait for the statements.
December 5, 2017 10:02:24 PM
Main reactions by 23:00 Moscow time:
- Officials either do not comment on the situation, or they comment cautiously and optimistically: it is likely that Russia can enter under its own flag on the last day of the competition.
- Deputies all as one believe that Russia should boycott the Games.
- Athletes who were going to the Olympics react cautiously, they say that they need to think about it.
December 5, 2017 10:04:22 PM
“It all started with a harmless meldonium, and I warned. The IOC's decision is 99 percent Mutko's fault. It’s his fault that Rodchenkov escaped, ”is four-time Olympic champion Alexander Tikhonov (Sports.Ru)
December 5, 2017 10:07:35 PM
“This is a new form of war,” “the decision is definitely related to the upcoming elections in Russia.” This is a member of the Federation Council Igor Morozov on "Russia 24".
In practice, he repeats Putin's thesis .
December 5, 2017 10:13:05 PM
Hockey player Ilya Kovalchuk is sure that he should go to the Olympics:
“Going to the Olympics is a must! To give up means to give up! We all understand perfectly well that the decision of the IOC is pure politics and against whom exactly it is directed. In principle, it was clear that there would be such a decision. But if athletes go there, it will unite the country. All "clean" athletes must go. For many, these will be the last Games, and they will no longer have the opportunity to get to the Olympics, ”R-Sport quotes the hockey player.
For Kovalchuk, this Olympics will almost certainly be the last, he is already 35.
December 5, 2017 10:15:00 PM
And R-Sport also quotes Alexander Zhukov, and from this quote it seems that he is more satisfied with the decision than not:
“After our speeches, the executive committee held discussions for about two more hours. I think that the decision was made directly at this meeting. There were many alternatives for this decision: from a complete ban to those that were accepted. This decision is without precedent in Olympic history. It is tough. But I think that the performance of Zhenya (Medvedeva) played a role. All Russian teams are allowed to participate. All of our teams will be able to participate."
December 5, 2017 10:16:13 PM
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called the IOC decision another attempt to “fill up” Russia.
December 5, 2017 10:33:32 PM
The organizing committee of the Olympics in South Korea announced that it respects the decision of the IOC.
December 5, 2017 10:35:25 PM
The ROC website posted Alexander Zhukov's speech at the IOC meeting.
“I would like to ask a direct question. Should 15-year-old figure skater Alina Zagitova, 20-year-old hockey player Kirill Kaprizov, or maybe 21-year-old luger Roman Repilov be responsible for what he did a few years ago, when they were not even members of the national team, the head of the Moscow Anti-Doping laboratories with their accomplices?
December 5, 2017 10:36:27 PM
on telegram They launched a voting whether athletes should go to the Olympics or not. "Ride" wins by a significant margin.
December 5, 2017 10:40:55 PM
And here is Evgenia Medvedeva's speech at the IOC Executive Committee.
“I cannot accept the option that I would compete at the Olympic Games without the Russian flag, as a neutral athlete. I am proud of my country, it is a great honor for me to represent it at the Games. It gives me strength and inspires me when I perform.”
December 5, 2017 10:46:36 PM
Ramzan Kadyrov:
“Not a single athlete with a Chechen residence permit will compete under a neutral flag. And those Chechen athletes who, according to all the criteria, should have been included in the national team and go to the Olympics, we will honor them as winners!”
December 5, 2017 10:55:06 PM
“The issue of my presence at the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang is the least of my worries at the moment. The main thing is Russian athletes!” TASS . told Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov
December 5, 2017 10:56:17 PM
The Russian national hockey team turned to Vladimir Putin with a request to allow them to go to the Olympics.
December 5, 2017 11:07:53 PM
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