President of the Russian Skating Union Nikolai Guliaev told he does not fear a mass exodus of athletes after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved the transfer of three Russians to other teams without the consent of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) and a quarantine of three years.
On Wednesday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) 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. .
— There is no fear that a mass transfer of athletes to other teams could begin, we will wait and see. We already have two daughters (Elizaveta Golubeva and Kristina Silaeva) who moved to Kazakhstan and Semirunniy to Poland. This is not to say that they were the strongest athletes, but one of them. So far they are not playing for the national teams because the transition deadlines were not met and there was no authorization from the TFR, so they were quarantined for 24 month. Let’s see how the situation develops,” Gulyaev told .
The IOC suspended membership in the ROC in October due to the inclusion of the Olympic councils of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions in the ROC. It was reported that the IOC reserves the right to decide on the admission of individual Russian athletes to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and the 2026 Winter Games in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo in neutral status.
Source : MatchTV
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