The elbow and the keeper

The International Olympic Committee reduced the pool of Russian athletes, who can be allowed before the 2018 Olympics, from 500 to 389 people. This was reported on the website of the IOC.

In a pool, 80 percent belongs to the "new generation" of Russian athletes who did not participate in the Sochi Olympics. It is still unknown which of them will fall on the games. The list is preliminary, qualifications are still ongoing. The IOC selection group will choose from this list of athletes, whom he will invite to the Olympics on January 27.

“All our decisions were made by a consensus for each individual athlete, all of them were considered anonymously. It was not easy to compose this list, but we wanted to be absolutely sure that to participate in the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang 2018, only“ pure ”athletes from Russia can be invited,” said the head of the group Valerie Fourneyon. According to her, the data of the reports of the expert of the World Anti -Doping Agency Richard McLaren, the IOC Commission Denis Oswald, as well as messages from international federations and other sources were taken into account.

“During the current winter season, this selected group of Russian athletes passed the most stringent tests around the world, taking into account the recommended target testing group before the games. On average, they had more tests since April 2017 than athletes from other countries,” Furneriron noted.

In addition, the group did not recommend the IOC to invite 51 coaches and 10 medical workers involved with detached athletes to the Olympics.

On December 5, the IOC Executive Committee decided to remove the Russian team from participation in the 2018 Olympics . At the same time, athletes from Russia were allowed to perform at the games in personal quality - under the neutral Olympic flag. Only those Russians who were not previously disqualified for doping or are convicted of violation of anti -doping rules are allowed for competitions. Another condition for the admission is the passage of tests appointed by the special IOC commission.

The Olympic Committee of Russia was removed from participation in the preparation of games. The membership of the President of the OKR Alexander Zhukov in the IOC is suspended. All functionaries of the Ministry of Sports of Russia were denied accreditation for the upcoming Olympics, and for Zhukov, as well as the former head of the Ministry of Sports, the current deputy prime minister Vitaly Mutko and the former deputy head of the Ministry of Sports of Yuri Nagorny, a lifetime ban on accreditation was introduced. Also, $ 15 million for the creation of the International Anti -Doping Committee was recovered from the ROD.

On December 6, Vladimir Putin assured that the Russian authorities will not impede athletes who will decide to participate in the Olympics under a neutral flag. 12 LTRF, HZ Olympic Assembly agreed to such a form of participation in games.