According to , more than 20 International Skating Union (ISU) Congress delegates have fallen ill with the coronavirus after returning from Phuket.
Earlier, reported that there was an outbreak of covid in the ISU at the end of the congress. In addition to the 20 delegates, employees of the union office in Lausanne were among those infected, including the personal assistant of former ISU President Jan Dijkema Jennecke Bogerd.
Representatives of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (FFKKR) Alexander Gorshkov, Alexander Kogan and Sergey Sviridov, as well as representatives of the Russian Skating Union (SCR) Ksenia Shantseva, Mikhail Sokolov and Andrey Nefedov, spoke from the Russia at the congress, Alexander Kibalko, elected to the ISU Council, participated in the meetings as head of the ISU technical committee. According to a source from , there were no infected among the Russian representatives after they returned from the congress.
The ISU Congress in Phuket was held June 6-10. It enacted a number of groundbreaking changes to the rules, including raising the age limit in figure skating, speed skating and short track from 15 to 17, reducing the figure skating components from five to three, and also the extension of the ban on the participation of athletes from Russia and Belarus in international competitions.
Source : MatchTV
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