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Russian athletes arrived at Paralympiad. What awaits them there? In the International Federation of Biathlon, they declared the possibility of exchanging Russian athletes from the competition

Novikom
25.10.2020

The cause of the sharp words of the Russian biathlete could be an emotional disruption. Therefore, the head coach of the Russian national biathlon team Alexander Kupserich recommended to discuss this issue with a cold head.

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"There is no need to hurry here, maybe, Anton said that we had the weakest team," the radio station "says Moscow" of the mentor of Russian biathletes. He added that the assessment must be given at the most important start - Olympic Games. However, in 2018, there was a situation at which not all athletes were able to take part in competitions, and unprecedented pressure was provided to Phenchhan.

"Someone could not withstand. Moreover, we have a complex technical sport, psychology is very influenced here," Alexander Kupserich is sure. "I would not say that we have one of the weaker teams in recent years. We have a leader - Anton, he proved it, now a good result showed, high. We have youth, which today performed at the European Championship, where he won Eight gold medals. There I have a whole car and car. We performed at the European Championships in Italy, in Ridnaau second teams, we also won it, "he reminded.

"Another thing is that we cannot fully disclose. But I think that the team is, and you need to rally, find those moments where we lose," the head coach of the Russian national biathlon team emphasized. As one of the reasons for not the highest indicators of athletes, he pointed out that often rivalry is not with the national teams of other countries, but within the team. "And coaching staffs, and leadership is fighting. It is necessary to find objective reasons where we lose and in what," Alexander Kupreovich said.

We will remind, earlier, Anton Shipulin gave an defeat assessment of the Russian national biathlon assessment on the TV channel "Match TV". "There are no results - it means we are weaker than others," he explained. The athlete itself was not allowed to participate in the Olympiad in Pytenchhan. After completing the games, in the sprint at the World Cup stage in Finnish Contiolachti, he took first place.

One of the leaders of the world biathlon Czech Gabriela Koukalova made it for the removal of the Russian national team from participation in the Olympiad in Pchenchkhan, which will be held on February 9-25, 2018

The two-time world champion in Biathlon Czech Gabriela Koukalova believes that the IOC should not allow Russian athletes to participate in the 2018 games in Phenchhan. This week it became known that after disqualification due to doping violations at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Yana Romanova and Olga Vilukhina, the Bronze medal in the relay will receive the Czech team as part of which coacal was.

"You certainly already know that the Czech team four years after the games in Sochi will receive the Olympic medal. On the one hand, I am glad that justice finally trembled. At the same time, I am very sorry for Eva Puskachikov, as well as my girlfriend Yitka Landov, who last year after the state of health completed his career. They gave sports all her life, but could not enjoy well-deserved success. I advise that doping violations are considered a serious crime. It is impossible to allow Russian athletes to perform on games in Pyonchhan. Honesty and justice is more important than victory extracted at any cost. Unfortunately, in Russia it was not yet understood, "Kukackalova wrote on Facebook.

In response to this post, the commentator "Match TV" Dmitry Guberniev ironically thanked Kukalov for morals. In his opinion, the Czech biathlete made this statement to put pressure on the IOC.

"Czech biathlete Gabriela Koukalov noted in Facebook, which cannot be allowed to speak Russian on the upcoming Olympic Games! And also learned us honesty and justice. Say, we do not understand much! Thank you, Gabriela! How are we, as well as our fathers and grandfathers lived without your serious morals? Pressure and anti-Russian rhetoric continue. I feel, now the Russian journalism will begin on the network, "wrote provinions in Instagram.

On Thursday, December 22, a meeting was held in Munich on the issues of the doping scandal in Russia. The expert group of the International Union of Biathlonists, relying on the materials of Richard McLaren, carried out its verdict regarding the Russian national team. As a result of the investigation of 2 people from a 31 biathlonist list, according to media information, allegedly used prohibited drugs, removed from the competition, reports NewsStut.


In relation to the rest of the remaining 29 biathletes, an investigation will begin, which will also affect the union of biathletes of Russia. The SBR is still not known to know the names of the list of athletes, however, it is reported that people from the list are shown in violation of the rules with doping, as well as serving disqualification or completed career.


In addition, the head of IBU Anders Tesoberg reported that two biathletes from Russia were already removed from the competition and tested the IOC, but they refused to voice their names. One of the biathletes competed, and the second was already removed. It is worth noting the fact that the doping samples of the remaining 29 biathletes do not have in common with the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.


Previously, representatives of several countries, including Canada, the United States proposed to deprive the Russian Federation of sports competitions in our country, up to the World Cup of Biathlon in Tyumen. So the SBR refused to hold the 8th stage of the World Cup in Biathlon, who had to go from March 9 to March 12 in Tyumen. This stage will take another country.


The Union of Biathlete in Russia made an open statement on the results of the Extraordinary IBU Executive Committee, held on December 22 in Munich. In the current circumstances, the SBR considers it impossible to conduct in the coming months in Russia of the World Cup of the Biathlon and the Junior World Cup, which were to take place in Tyumen and Island, respectively. The determination of the venue of these events remains for IBU. Competitions must be held in the atmosphere of the holiday, and not among suspicion and curvators. SBR expects the speedy and most careful proceedings from IBU regarding the information contained in the report of the Richard McLaren Commission. SBR in this situation will operate according to international anti-doping legislation. At the same time, cases of cases should be punished only if their fault really will be proven. We hope that in the near future the big biathlon will return to Russia. The full text of the application is available on the SBR website.


Biathlon 2016 2017: Who are suspected of doping who removed. Before the meeting in Munich had several options for decisions about this situation. The option is the first - disqualification of individual biathletes whose wines are proven to use prohibited substances. The second option is to deprive the participation of the Russian national team in biathlon in international competitions.

The future of the Russian biathlon is under threat. Possible suspension of the biathlon team and the loss of international competition rights are the echoes of a new doping scandal in Russian sports.

What started?

Head of IBU Anders Tesoberg

The reasons for the future scandal was the report of the Canadian Professor Richard McLaren's right. This report was based on the testimony of the former Director of the Anti-Doping Center of Russia Grigoria Rodchenkov. The McLaren report describes the processes of "dirty" doping tests to "clean" in more than 30 sports. One of the main points of this report was the Olympic Games in Sochi and, in particular, Biathlon Competitions.

On December 15, 2016, the International Union of Biathlonists (IBU) received from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) a list of Russian biathletes who are suspected of abuse of prohibited drugs from 2011 to 2015. In this WADA list, there are 31 athletes. The names of biathlonists from this list to the pores are unknown. However, as stated by the head of IBU Anders Tesoberg, the majority of athletes suspected of doping, completed their careers or have already received disqualification. Nevertheless, the tobiver promised to figure out the emergence of the scandal. Along the way, he stated that there is a high probability of removing the Russian national team on biathlon from any international competitions for an indefinite period.

Moreover, in his press release, Bescherd hinted that Russia could also be deprived of the right to hold any biathlon international competitions. In particular, Russia can pick up the World Cup stage in Tyumen and the Junior world forum in the island.

Richard McLaren

To solve the "Russian issue", a special executive committee was created, which should endure the final verdict. The head of this committee was all the same Norwegian Bescherg. In addition to him, the fate of the Russian biathlon decided to Austrian Claus Layistner, American Max Cobb, Slovak Ivor Lehotan, Swede Dalina, Germans Thomas Pfuller and Nicole Dev, Canadian James Carrabr and Korean on Mi Kim. The executive committee also entered the first vice-president of IBU Russian Victor Maigurov. However, the representative of Russia, for obvious reasons, was deprived of the right to vote. The decision to remove the Russian national biathlon team was taken on December 22, 2016.

Who is at risk?

Wada and IBU hold in the strictest secret the names of the athletes falling into the "list 31". Moreover, even representatives of the Union of Russian biathletes do not know the names of all biathletes who have threatened disqualification. Anders Tesoberg in one of his interviews was mentioned that there were both famous and little-known athletes in this list. According to insider information of Russian journalists, from the current members of the Russian national biathlon team, Ekaterina Glazirin and Ekaterina Shumilova, who participated in the Olympics in Sochi are under threat.

Ekaterina Glazerina risks to be in the "list 31"

Reaction of Russia

The Union of Biathlonists of Russia, without waiting for the official decision of the IBU, made a statement in which it was stated on the impossibility of conducting international biathlon starts in the near future in Russia. Based on this, the RAS refused to hold the Junior World Championship-2017 and the 2017 World Cup Stage in Tyumen. The press release of the SBR said that the international biathlon competitions should be held in the atmosphere of the holiday, and not suspicion. Also, the Union of Biathlonists of Russia stated that it was ready to continue to act in accordance with current international anti-doping legislation. Therefore, if the fault of the scandal defendants will be proved, the violators will have to incur a strictest punishment.

Tyumen fans left without Big biathlon

Session December 22

The solution to the issue of the dissolution of the Russian biathlon team was scheduled for December 22, 2016. On this day, the fate of not only Russian, but also the world biathlon was solved in Munich. Given this fact, IBU tried not to make hasty conclusions. Moreover, a specially created commission had extremely little time to conduct an objective investigation. Therefore, the main decision of the IBU was the suspension of two biathletes who participated in Sochi. The International Union of Biathlonists did not call the names of disqualified athletes. Thus, it remains to recall that Anton Sipulin, Evgeny Garanichev, Evgeny Ustyugov, Evgeny Garanichev, Evgeny Ustyugov, Alexander Volkov, Dmitry Malyshko, Alexander Loginov, Olga Podchufarova, Alexander Loginov, Olga Schumilova, Yana Romanova, Olga Vilyukhina, Olga Zaitseva. Sanctions regarding the Union of Russian biathletes did not follow.

The head of IBU Anders Tesoberg at a press conference dedicated to the meeting on December 22, said that the International Union of Biathlonists demonstrates zero tolerance towards athletes hosting doping. However, the decision for each athlete should be taken exclusively after a thorough investigation.

Biathlon community reaction

Athletes and leading biathlon functionaries in one voice condemned biathletes who took doping. Moreover, many athletes allowed sharp statements to the Russian biathlon. For example, Czech Michal Schlesinger generally stated that in Russia all biathletes take doping. Loyal was the "Biathlon King" Ule-Einar Bjorndalen. According to him, first it is necessary to conduct an objective investigation and only after that do any conclusions.

Michal Schlesinger believes that all Russian biathletes use biathlon

The best Russian biathlete Anton Shipulin is also adhered to such an opinion. He believes that unrefined accusations against Russian athletes are moving all borders. At the same time, Schipulin reminds the biathlon community that the Russian biathlon is not only athletes, but also the millionth army of fans, which should not be deprived of the holiday. Therefore, Anton considers unfair deprivation of Tyumen and the island of the right of international competitions.

The current leader of the Men's World Biathlon Martin Fourcad also requires providing evidence of perfect violations. But at the same time, the Frenchman believes that if these evidence is presented, Russian biathletes deserve the most severe punishment. In the opposite case, he promised to call partners and rivals to refuse to participate in competitions under the auspices of IBU.

It is also worth noting a negative reaction of several national federations. Thus, the Norwegian and Czech biathlon federation immediately after the disclosure of McLaren's report sent a letter to IBU with the requirement of Russia's immediate removal from any international biathlon competitions. In addition, representatives of these federations stated that the responsibility for the use of doping by Russian athletes should be incurred and officials who covered this process.

During the World Cup stage in German Rupolding, more than 170 biathletes signed a letter to the head of IBU Anders Debell, demanding to act resolutely against athletes who are mentioned in the report of Richard McLaren. In this letter, the athletes call on temporarily removing all suspects of biathletes and reduce the quota for countries in which cases of doping reception were recorded. In addition, biathletes urge not to allow the World Championships and Olympic Games athletes with the Doping Past.

Possible removal of the Russian national biathlon team commented on Russian biathlon functionaries. In particular, the President of SBR Alexander Kravtsov believes that Russia won the situation. According to him, the main thing in this situation is the fact that Russian biathletes will continue to train and take part in international competitions.

When to wait for the final decision?

It is worth recalling that the consideration of the decision to remove the Russian national biathlon team on December 22 was an unknown. The Special Commission to Doping Affairs still separately considers the case of each athlete from the "List 31". The final decision on the fate of biathlonists who came to this list will be issued in the period up to February 8. It was on this day that the next World Cup will begin in the Austrian Hochfilzen. According to unconfirmed information, at the IBU Congress, which will be held before the world championship in the Italian Antholz, may also be decided on the World Biathlon Championship in Tyumen in 2021.

EFFECTS

If the Russian national team managed to avoid removal in 2016, then our biathlon, most likely, not to avoid the loss of several medals at the Olympic Games in Sochi. If information is confirmed on the presence of prohibited drugs in the doping samples of Catherine Glazyrina and Ekaterina Sumilova, then Russia will surely lose silver for the female relay. There is also a possibility of losing the silver medal Olga Vilukhina, which is most likely present in the "list 31".

Investigations on the removal of Russian biathletes from international competitions continue, and therefore there is still a likelihood of the dismissal of our national team from participating in the 2018 Olympic Games. Such an assumption was made by the President of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov.

The biathlon team of Russia in full force can be removed today from starts at the World Cup stages. Today in Munich, according to the results of the meeting of the Executive Committee of the International Union of Biathlonists (IBU), devoted to the problem of doping, will decide.

Under the suspicion of the application of prohibited substances in 2011-2015, 31 shooting skiers from Russia got on. The report on the basis of the report on December 15 was conveyed by the Independent Commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) under the leadership of Richard McLaren.

The agency officially does not publish the names of Russian athletes who caught a violation of anti-doping rules. "The names of athletes in 31 folder of documents will remain confidential before the final decisions for each case separately," the Sport-Express quotes the IBU press release.

However, the network was leaked on the "caught" in doping biathletes, which is present, including Ekaterinburg Anton Shipulin. The site portal cannot judge the authenticity of the file, but this option is discussed in social networks. In it, by the way, just 31 points.

We note, on December 11, journalists found out that Wada suspects four Russian biathletes in the use of the so-called "Cocktail Roddenkov" - mixtures of alcohol and anabolic steroids. The personal data of the athletes were transferred to the digital code, but the three surnames were found to find out the simple logical calculation: Olga Zaitseva, Olga Vilukhin and Jan Romanova. Until today, Sipulin's surname in this context never mentioned.

It is reported that some biathletes from the list are already disqualified, some have completed their career.

Anders Tesoberg, President IBU:

We have enough evidence of the violation of the anti-doping rules by Russians. We have received additional information that is not in the McLaren report.

About serious sanctions warns the commentator of the TV channel "Match TV" Dmitry Guberniev, who knows the biathlon, probably better than all in the country.

Dmitry Guberniev, commentator:

There is a high probability of complete removal of Russia. The tone of the IBU President tobiver has changed over the past few days. Now you need to cooperate as much as possible with the investigation, although there is a feeling that it is too late. Critical situation.

Possible scenarios of today's meeting, which will begin at 17:00 local time, in theory of several:

  • removal of existing athletes from the competition and revising the results of the Olympic Games in Sochi;
  • invalid biathlonists on the following Olympic Games in Pytenchhan;
  • removing the entire national team from the season.

In addition, there is a high probability that the Union will cancel the competition planned in Russia: the Junior World Championships in the island and the World Cup stage in Tyumen.