“For the love of God, we must accept these sanctions from Ukraine with a smile and forget” – Alexander Tikhonov

Four-time Olympic biathlon champion Alexander Tikhonov told that Russian athletes should not pay attention to the sanctions imposed on them by the President of Ukraine.

– All these sanctions will turn against them, they don’t understand it. Yes, for the love of God, you have to accept these sanctions with a smile and forget. It is a country of nationalists, I think they will end very badly, and I am never wrong in my predictions. You don’t have to pay attention to penalties – you have to keep training and performing. We’ve been there before,” Tikhonov told .

The list of sanctions includes football players Igor Akinfeev and Yuri Gazinsky, figure skater Mark Kondratyuk, gymnast Artur Dalaloyan, silver medalist of the 2002 Olympics in figure skating, choreographer Ilya Averbukh. Also on the list are former CSKA goalkeeper Veniamin Mandrykin, former Russian national team goalkeeper Sergei Ovchinnikov, skier Veronika Stepanova, biathlon coach Mikhail Shashilov, figure skaters Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Nikita Katsalapov, Alexander Gallyamov and Ivan Bukin, swimmer Anton Chupkov.

In total, there are more than 80 Russian athletes on the list. Sanctions involve blocking of assets, prohibition of business operations, transit of resources, flights and transportation through the territory of Ukraine, termination of cultural exchanges, scientific cooperation, educational and sports contacts, entertainment programs with foreign states and foreign judicial authorities. entities, refusal of visas, application of other bans on entering the territory of Ukraine, deprivation of state awards of Ukraine, prohibition of transfer of rights to objects of rights of intellectual property, the prohibition to acquire land.