The Russian Biathlon Union (RBU) will send a letter to the International Biathlon Union (IBU) on September 8 regarding the withdrawal of Russian athletes from tournaments under the organization’s auspices. RIA Novosti Sport was informed of this by the head of the RRF Viktor Maygurov .
Previously, Russian biathletes were suspended from international competitions due to the situation in Ukraine.
– On the one hand, we dispute the legal status of the decisions that were taken against us. On the other hand, we want to say that the leaders of the IBU must first think of the athletes whose fate they are about to decide.
It is the athletes who suffer, although they are in no way linked to what is happening in the world. We also want to draw the attention of IBU congressmen to other sports – for example, two Russians are playing in the quarterfinals of the US Open tennis championship currently taking place in New York. How has this interfered with world tennis? Our main initiative is the revision of the spring decisions of the IBU, the possibility of participation of Russian biathletes in international competitions. Anything else violates the Olympic Charter, in which sport is clearly out of politics, Maigurov said.
RIA Novosti Sport
Source : MatchTV
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