Victor AN wrote an open letter to the head of the IOC: "I am outraged that the reason for my inadmissance before the Olympics is not named"

The six-time Olympic champion in Short Treku Viktor An sent an open letter to the head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach. The athlete is outraged that the reason for his inappropriate to the Olympics in Pyeongchang is not named.

“I am outraged by the situation with the fact that the specific reason for my inappropriate before the Olympics has not yet been named and in this situation there were talk about me as an athlete who used doping. After so many years in sports, this verdict for lack ofness became a symbol of distrust to me from the IOC and the cause of distrust from the sports community, ”the athlete wrote.

According to ANA, he always complied with all his sports career anti -doping legislation and did not allow him to doubt the purity of his victories. The athlete studied the criteria of the IOC commission and believes that “throughout its fault, for any of these criteria,” could not be in the list of those who were not accepted before participating in the Olympic Games.

We will remind, earlier the Olympic Committee of Russia published the names of 169 athletes admitted to participate in the Olympics in Pyeongchang. Among them there are no ANA, biathlonist Anton Shipulin, skaters Ksenia Stolbova, Fedor Klimov, Ivan Bukin and Alexandra Tarasova.