Kaminsky said that Loginov was not included in the Russian national team before the Commonwealth Cup stage in Ufa.

Double Olympic medalist in biathlon Alexander Loginov was not included in the Russian national team for the Commonwealth Cup stage, he will participate in the competition, but his stay in Ufa is paid by the region, and not by the Sports Training Center (TSSP) , national team coach Yuri Kaminsky told .

According to the criteria for selecting Russian national teams to participate in international competitions in the 2023/24 season, 16 men and women are selected each for the men’s and women’s national teams to prepare and participate in the Alfa-Bank Commonwealth Cup in Ufa. . The 10 best athletes are rated according to the RBU ranking, six other athletes are selected by decision of the RBU executive committee and coaching council.

— 16 people will be financed by the TsSP, the rest will be financed by the regions. This is the team that prepared centrally, plus (Alexander) Povarnitsyn, (Petr) Pashchenko and (Anton) Babikov.

– And Loginov?

— We cannot take Loginov because he is not on the national team lists. Besides Loginov, we cannot take (Evgeniy) Sidorov and (Vyacheslav) Maleev, they are in the same situation.

— To what extent is this situation critical for the regions?

“I think it’s not that critical, because we’re talking about funding literally for a week,” Kaminsky told .

Before the stage of the Commonwealth Cup in Ufa, not counting the results of Belarusian Anton Smolsky, Loginov occupies third place in the SBR ranking, Sidorov is fourth.

The second stage of the Alfa-Bank Commonwealth Cup will begin on Friday. Watch the live broadcast of the men’s sprint on the channel, starting at 8:35 (Moscow time), the broadcast of the women’s race is scheduled for 11:40 (Moscow time). You can also follow the progress of the competition on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.