Pankratov: “I know that several swimmers are granted neutral status for the sole purpose of participating in the Singapore World Cup”

Double Olympic swimming champion Denis Pankratov According to , several Russian swimmers have been given neutral status with the aim of competing in the Singapore leg of the World Cup.

The All-Russian Swimming Federation (RSF) has created a group of athletes who will compete under the neutral status of the World Swimming Championship. The Swimming World Cup will take place in Singapore from October 31 to November 2.

– It’s a kind of thermometer. We are trying to find out what will happen when Russian athletes return to the international stage. Indeed, according to my information, several people benefit from neutral status for the sole purpose of participating in the Singapore World Cup.

The task is to check how the public will receive them, how the federation will behave, how their rivals will behave. If all goes well, the conversation will continue about the performance of the Russian national team in an updated status without any kind of prefix to the World Championships in December. This is the maximum plan, I don’t know what will come of it.

Several people benefit from neutrality status to participate in the World Cup in Singapore. Only adults with training experience abroad go there. These are older guys, we do not replace children, who, basically, do not speak English, have no weight and status, ”Pankratov told .

Earlier, FSM President Vladimir Salnikov told that world record holders Evgenia Chikunova and Kliment Kolesnikov were not yet among the swimmers who applied for neutral world swimming status. The FSM said swimmers would begin receiving neutral status ahead of the world championships, which will take place Dec. 10-15 in Budapest. This week, Andrey Minakov and Nika Godun were granted neutrality status.

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