The application is strictly required

The Olympic Committee of Russia approved an application for winter games-2018 in Pyeongchang, reports Interfax. It included 169 athletes, and taking into account the accompanying - 340 people. The list of participants is published on the website of the OKR.

“Unfortunately, our leading athletes were not included in the application, we worked with the IOC for two days, but, unfortunately, they did not enter the application. And as a result, 169 athletes will defend the honor of the country,” said the first vice -president of the OKR Stanislav Pozdnyakov. “I am sure that, despite the fact that our composition will be stitched, every athlete, who will go, will not only advocate for themselves, but also for those who are for themselves, but also for those Unjustly, from our point of view, were excommunicated from the Olympic Games. "

The Russian team could fill in the quota -free quota leaders with weaker athletes, but refused it. "In solidarity with athletes who cannot participate in the Olympics, the weaker will not occupy their quotas, we made such a decision," said the vice president of the OKR.

The Minister of Sports Pavel Kolobkov said that the athletes detached from the Olympics have the right to be declared, their rights will be stolen. " "It was these athletes that conquered these quotas, they were repeatedly verified by anti -doping services, including foreign ones," the minister emphasized.

For those who did not wait for an invitation to Pyeongchan, athletes organize a separate tournament with the participation of foreigners. “There can only be one Olympiad. There will be tournaments for those who will not go to it, we will invite foreigners to these competitions. The deadlines will be agreed with the federations,” Kolobkov said. “Our athletes should get a practice, many are in good shape.”

On Thursday, the International Olympic Committee published the criteria that guided the group to admit Russian athletes for the 2018 Games. "To make a decision on the issuance of an invitation, we studied a lot of data, including suspicious indicators of steroid profile, DNA inconsistencies, violations of the athlete’s biological passport, as well as evidence provided in Richard McLaren's reports, Denis Oswald and Samuel Schmidt, collected by various WADA units, data provided by international We also studied information from other sources on winter sports. In total, the IOC press release indicates 17 criteria. The selection group will publish a list of athletes from Russia who will be invited to the Olympics, January 27.

On January 20, the IOC reduced the pool of Russian athletes who can be allowed before the 2018 games, from 500 to 389 people . In a pool, 80 percent belongs to the "new generation" of Russian athletes who did not participate in the Sochi Olympics.

“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,” Fourneuron said. - 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. "

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 Tuesday, it became known that a number of leading Russian athletes were not allowed to play the games in Pyeongchang. Among them are six-time Olympic champion in the short track Victor An, skaters Pavel Kulizhnikov, Denis Yuskov, biathlonist Anton Shipulin, skier Sergey Ustyugov, skillers Ksenia Stolbova and Ivan Bukin, players of the hockey team Anton Belov, Mikhail Naumenkov, Valery Nichushkin and Sergey Plotnikov.

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 and without national symbols. Office 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. On December 12, the Olympic Assembly agreed to such a form of participation in the games.