“This is not appropriate.” Tarasova – about the IOC’s decision to approve the transfer of Russian athletes to other countries without quarantine

Honored coach of the USSR in figure skating Tatyana Tarasova in a conversation with a correspondent, she called the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to approve the transfer of Russian athletes to other countries without the consent of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) as indecent ) and without a three-year quarantine.

On Wednesday, the IOC announced that it had approved the change of sports citizenship of Greco-Roman wrestler Georgiy Tibilov, cyclist Valeria Lyubimova and cyclist Mikhail Yakovlev without the approval of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and without the standard quarantine of three years. The President of the Republic of China, Stanislav Pozdnyakov, said that these actions of the IOC cannot be called anything other than arbitrary and lawless.

— I agree with Stanislav Pozdnyakov. I think it’s indecent. If the rules don’t change, then they are the same for everyone,” Tarasova told .

In October, the IOC Executive Committee suspended the membership of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) in the organization due to the inclusion of the Olympic councils of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions in the ROCK. It was reported that the IOC reserves the right to decide on the admission of individual Russian athletes to participate in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and the 2026 Winter Games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo in neutral status.