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In the list of Russian athletes, who can invite the International Olympic Committee to 2018 games in Pyeongchang, there are no number of leading athletes, including a six-time Olympic short-track, Viktor Ana. This was stated by the first vice-president of the Olympic Committee of Russia, Stanislav Pozdnyakov, the press service of the organization reports .

On the eve of the working group of OKR met with representatives of the IOC. The main topic of the meeting was to participate in the 2018 game of Russian athletes.

“We initially proceeded from the unshakable right of all the pure athletes to take part in the Olympic Games. Unfortunately, in the list that we were provided the day before, there was a number of leading Russian athletes in several sports,” Pozdnyakov said. “These athletes, such as Viktor An, Anton Shipulin or Sergey Ustyug, were not involved The framework of the Oswald Commission, they were also never involved in any doping stories, and all the many samples handed over to their careers indicate that they are pure athletes. ”

"On all other paragraphs of the investigation of the negotiations that concern technical and organizational issues, a lot of work has also been carried out, but now we have on the agenda, first of all, the issue of the composition of our team. At the moment, all the information is still preliminary, I would like to emphasize this. We will discuss the situation with sports federations today and continue the dialogue with the IOC, after which the final decisions will already be adopted," the Vice President of the Investigative Committee.

Among the Russian athletes who will not receive an invitation to Pyeongchang - skaters Pavel Kulizhnikov, Denis Yuskov, biathlonist Shipulin, skier of Ustyugov. The games were also not allowed by the skaters Ksenia Stolbov and Ivan Bukin. Thus, the sports PAA Polbova - Fedor Klimov and dancers Alexander Stepanov - Bukin, who took second places at the European Championship will not participate in the competitions.

Russian athletes, perhaps, should revise the decision to participate in the Olympic Games in connection with the prevention of some leaders of the team team, said Mikhail Degtyarev, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Physical Education, Sports, Tourism and Youth Affairs. In his opinion, they tried to provoke Russia to the boycott of the Olympics, but, not having achieved this, "decided to act in such a Jesuit way - to prevent Russian leaders with an ideal reputation." "This smells of political blackmail, and also creates the conditions for a dishonest victory at the Olympics of athletes from other countries," Degtyarev said.

Until December 2011, AN Hyun Su represented the Republic of Korea at international competitions. He won three gold medals at the 2006 Olympics in Turin, he repeatedly became the world champion. However, in 2011, the athleteaccepted Russian citizenship and name Victor An. His father stated that the decision was associated with the lack of support from the South Korean Skate Association. At the Games in Sochi AN, already playing for Russia, he received three gold and bronze.

On December 20, the IOC reported that the pool of Russian athletes, who can be allowed before the 2018 Olympics, was reduced from 500 to 389 people . Of these, 80 percent belongs to the "new generation" of Russian athletes who did not participate in the Sochi Olympics. 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 winter season, this selected group of Russian athletes surrendered more tests than athletes from other countries.

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 the BGR. 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.