Double Olympic champion in biathlon Dmitry Vasiliev told that the decision by the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) to withdraw the Russians from competition indefinitely came as no surprise to him.
On Saturday, the FIS extended indefinitely the suspension of Russian and Belarusian athletes from competitions under its auspices. This decision was taken on Saturday at a meeting of the FIS Council.
Well, there’s nothing new in that. It would be surprising if it were the other way around. Exactly the same decision was made in biathlon. With wording for an indefinite period. Apparently, this period will be determined by the international situation. As soon as this changes in a certain direction, the International Biathlon Union and the FIS will make decisions regarding Russian athletes. Nothing supernatural happened here. I repeat, on the contrary, it would be surprising if they allowed our athletes. Although Thomas Bach expressed such a clever formulation: they say it is for the safety of the athletes themselves. And when Yugoslavia was bombed, they were somehow not very worried that the safety of athletes from countries that were organizing hostilities would suffer,” Vasilyev told .
Source : MatchTV
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