General Director of the International Club Biathlon League (ICBL) Alexey Nuzhdov in an interview with , he said that it was necessary to interest athletes from other countries in participating in competitions and to create an alternative organization to the International Biathlon Union (IBU).
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— There is only one strategic objective: to meet the challenges. What do I mean by challenges: today, as we all understand, thanks to the efforts of the International Biathlon Union, we have been suspended from participation in international competitions, and now there is no There is no end in sight to this escalation by some IBU representatives.
But this must be resisted somehow. You don’t want to see us there for some reason that I don’t think has anything to do with sports? Okay, then we will develop biathlon ourselves. The slogan sounds – and there is truth in this – that without international competitions, any sport will stagnate, the training and motivation of athletes will deteriorate.
And what to do in this situation? We should not sit and wait for them to let us in, but create an alternative. Ideally, create an alternative organization to the IBU. Since they behave this way, we ourselves will do everything in our power to create competition in international competitions, now the IBU. And the main goal is to maximize the interest of athletes from other countries who would come to our competitions, ”Nuzhdov told .
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