General Director of the International Club Biathlon League (ICBL) Alexey Nuzhdov in a conversation with , he did not rule out making changes to the competition regulations due to the incident with Karim Khalili And Daniel Serokhvostov .
On Saturday, mass departures took place at YANGPUR MLCB in Khanty-Mansiysk. Khalili won the men’s race, Serokhvostov took second place. At the finish line, Khalili and Serokhvostov took their team flag and, on the fly, determined who would take first place using a game of rock-paper-scissors.
— The most discussed topic of the first day of the competition is the arrival of Serokhvostov and Khalili. Opinions on this question are divided. What do you think about the decision of biathletes to refuse a full-fledged fight at the finish line?
— To be honest, I also have an ambivalent attitude about this. I think we can discuss all this calmly with the guys. It is clear that opinions are divided among fans. There is a clear and fair complaint that I wanted to see the sports component, but here it was leveled out, in terms of male finishing. I don’t think there’s any frivolity behind it. You can argue all you want, but they actually won the race, no one will argue with that. In other words, they really were the best.
Now they probably also read and think that there is justice in the words of spectators who wish there was a purely athletic fight at the finish line. On the other hand, there is probably something new and newsworthy in this. A reasonable compromise is necessary here.
For the future, in my opinion, it will still be necessary to provide for such cases in the regulations in order to eliminate the elements of lack of fighting, the moments which allow not to fight. I look at the fan comments, and two-thirds say they would like to fight, and a third are in favor. Let’s look at the statistics with a cool head and we will finally decide,” Nuzhdov told .
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