The liturgy of the invited

The International Olympic Committee registered 169 athletes from Russia to participate in 2018 Games in Pyeongchang. This was reported by TASS with reference to the first vice president of the Olympic Committee of Russia Stanislav Pozdnyakov.

"Today, the IOC has officially registered athletes and the list of Russian delegation in their system, now they are already de facto in it and from that moment they may begin to receive accreditation," Pozdnyakov said. He will head the delegation of Olympic athletes from Russia in Pyeongchang.

On the eve of the IOC, he published the rules for members of the delegation from Russia. They are forbidden to dress in the colors of the Russian flag, place national paraphernalia in their accounts in social networks, to sing a national anthem. All equipment of athletes should be absolutely neutral, even outside of training and competitions. They can only call themselves “Olympic Athlect from Russia” (OAR) or “Olympic athlete from Russia” (OSR).

On Thursday, the OKR approved the application for games-2018. It included 169 athletes, and taking into account the accompanying - 340 people. “Unfortunately, our leading athletes did not enter 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,” Pozdnyakov said. “I am sure that our composition is steamed, every athlete who will go, will not only advocate for themselves, but also for those who were unjustly, from our point 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.

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 terms will be agreed with the federations,” said Minister of Sports Pavel Kolobkov. “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. OKR 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.