The Russian Biathlon Union (SBR) will not make a single calendar with the International Club Biathlon League (ICBL) due to possible sanctions from the International Biathlon Union (IBU), said the executive director of the SBR at . Alexander Pak .
The first MLKB Cup took place in mid-November last year in Khanty-Mansiysk. The founders of the International Club Biathlon League were the regional biathlon club of the Moscow region and the Belarusian biathlon club. The main objective of the organization is to organize alternative IBU competitions.
— This season, a club tournament was held in Khanty in mid-November. The SBR will deliberately start the new season earlier so that the Alexei Nuzhdov tournament does not take place?
– Why do we start earlier? The coaches asked to remove a summer Commonwealth Cup, we moved it to winter. We hadn’t seen the club’s tournament schedule when we made our schedule.
— Have you not communicated with Alexei Nuzhdov?
– No, I did not communicate. And I don’t really understand what we have to do with it if it’s a club tournament. And its organizers emphasize that they fall outside the jurisdiction of the RBU. I’m not against this tournament, but we have nothing to do with it.
—Can you make friends with the other side and create a common calendar?
— If we create a single schedule, then we will start to be relevant for this league. This means that any violations of IBU rules will affect us. We are not burning bridges with the IBU, we will come back to it sooner or later. Why should we break the rules? We are members of the IBU, although temporarily suspended. I don’t think we can have a common calendar.
— Did the IBU ask you for the club tournament?
– Yes, we were asked questions, but we explained that we had nothing to do with it. The club tournament was announced very high in the media with the participation of several countries, and the IBU had questions before it started,” Park told .
The biathlon season will end next week in Murmansk. Watch live broadcasts of the fourth stage of the Alfa-Bank Commonwealth Cup on TV channels of the Match outfit from April 12. You can also follow the progress of the races on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Source : MatchTV
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