Which Russians were not allowed to attend the Olympics? Mok named the criteria for admitting Russian athletes to the Olympics

Last December the International Olympic Committee(IOC) suspended the Russian national team from participation, while “pure” Russian athletes had the right to go to the Games as independent participants. But the degree of “purity” of athletes from Russia is determined by the IOC, whose objectivity, at least among our eastern neighbors, doubts are again emerging.

The final list of invitees to PyeongChang Russian athletes will be announced only on January 28, but the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) already has preliminary lists in which a number of famous athletes, many of whom had no previous problems with doping, and it is this factor, as noted by the IOC, that will be the main one in the admission of Russians to the 2018 Olympic Games.

In particular, the IOC allowed only 3 athletes to participate in the Olympics. Russian biathletes out of 11 present in the application. In particular, the leader of the Russian national team did not receive an invitation, Olympic champion Anton Shipulin, who has not previously been caught in connection with doping. Accordingly, Russia will not be able to enter its teams in the relay races. The Russian Biathlon Union has already announced its readiness to boycott the Games.

In addition, a significant blow was dealt to the Russian hockey team; the IOC did not include defensemen Anton Belov and Mikhail Naumenkov, as well as forwards Sergei Plotnikov and Valery Nichushkin, on the list of invited players. At the same time, Nichushkin and Naumenkov are in violation anti-doping rules were not convicted.

But coaching staff will still be able to select athletes. Representatives of the IOC provided the ROC with a list of hockey players who are allowed to take part in the Games in Pyeongchang. The list contains the names of 42 players: Sergey Andronov, Alexander Barabanov, Anton Burdasov, Vyacheslav Voynov, Vladislav Gavrikov, Nikita Gusev, Mikhail Grigorenko, Pavel Datsyuk, Vasily Demchenko, Artem Zub, Andrey Zubarev, Sergey Kalinin, Kirill Kaprizov, Bogdan Kiselevich, Ilya Kovalchuk, Vasily Koshechkin, Ilya Kablukov, Evgeny Ketov, Pavel Kraskovsky, Egor Korshkov, Roman Lyubimov, Ilya Lyubushkin, Alexey Marchenko, Sergey Mozyakin, Nikita Nesterov, Nikolay Prokhorkin, Egor Rykov, Ilya Samsonov, Andrey Svetlakov, Ilya Sorokin, Victor Tikhonov, Ivan Telegin, Vladimir Tkachev, Nikita Tryamkin, Maxim Shalunov, Alexander Sharychenkov, Sergey Shirokov, Vadim Shipachev, Sergey Shumakov, Igor Shesterkin, Dinar Khafizullin, Egor Yakovlev.

Big problems also await the Russian short track team, which, apparently, will go to the Games without 6-time Olympic champion Viktor Ahn and four other athletes. It is noteworthy that for Ana this Olympics could be quite domestic - 20-time world champion Viktor Ahn was born in Seoul, but in 2011 he moved to Russia in search of better conditions for career development.

If you believe the preliminary data, and everything is going exactly this way, in Pyeongchang we will not see almost the entire Russian speed skating team.

Whom the IOC did not include on the list of invitees to the 2018 Olympics

Biathlon

Anton Shipulin, Alexey Volkov, Evgeny Garanichev, Ekaterina Yurlova-Perkht, Daria Virolainen, Irina Uslugina, Matvey Elissev, Maxim Tsvetkov

Skis

Sergey Ustyugov

Hockey

Anton Belov, Mikhail Naumenkov, Sergei Plotnikov, Valery Nichushkin

Skates

Denis Yuskov, Pavel Kulizhnikov, Olga Fatkulina, Ekaterina Shikhova, Yulia Skokova, Anna Yurakova, Elizaveta Kazelina, Victoria Filyushkina, Daria Kachanova

Figure skating

Ksenia Stolbova ( pair skating), Ivan Bukin (ice dancing)

Luge

Tatiana Ivanova, Victoria Demchenko

Bobsled

Roman Koshelev, Yulia Shokshueva

To date, the IOC has not “offended” with invitations only the Russian freestyle, snowboarding and curling federations.

It should be noted that athletes who have not received an invitation have practically no time left to appeal - the Olympics begin on February 9. Indicative against this background is the situation with the Belarusian men's kayaking and canoeing team, which was not allowed to participate in the 2014 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, but was later rehabilitated and all charges were dropped.

The Sports Court in Lausanne actually manages to consider the cases of several dozen Russian athletes who were not allowed to participate in the Games earlier, but whether the IOC will be able to consider the updated applications is unclear.

Against the backdrop of announcements about yet another exclusion of Russian athletes from the 2018 Olympic Games, calls for a boycott were once again heard in the Russian State Duma. “If there is no clarification, then perhaps the athletes will need to reconsider the decision regarding their participation in Olympic Games in Pyeongchang,” noted the chairman of the committee State Duma on physical education, sports, tourism and youth affairs, Mikhail Degtyarev, who, among other things, said that “they wanted to bring Russia into a boycott of the Olympics” and that all this “smacks of political blackmail.”

Similar conversations were already heard in Russia immediately after the suspension from the Olympics, but died down after Vladimir Putin said that the authorities would not “declare any blockade” and would not prevent Russian athletes from participating in the Games in their personal capacity.

There are only a few days left until the opening of the 2018 Winter Olympics. An important period is coming for athletes, for which they have been preparing for the past 4 years. Unfortunately, not all famous and titled players were able to get into the Russian national team. Official list those who are still going to the 2018 Olympics from Russia were shocked.

After a long trial that lasted since the scandalous accusation of doping against our athletes, WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) established strict criteria for the selection of participants, the main point of which is the refusal to participate in athletes who were in any way involved in the anti-doping scandal.

After the announcement of the lists of those who were disqualified, the sports community was overwhelmed by a wave of indignation, because in the list of those who will not be able to take part in the Olympics, in addition to the athletes whose participation was in question, there were also the names of several titled athletes with an absolutely clean reputation. What WADA employees were guided by remains a guess. We can only state the following important facts:

  • Our athletes will take part in the Olympics.
  • The team will perform under neutral flag.
  • Those disqualified who have chosen this quota and the right to participate will not be replaced by anyone.

Olympic team composition

According to the final list presented on the website of the IOC special commission, a delegation of 340 people, which will include 169 athletes, will go to South Korea. We invite you to view the full list of those who are going to the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea from Russia:

111 Russian athletes were refused, including both titled champions and promising guys who had never taken part in the Olympics.

What awaits those who were not allowed to participate in the Olympic Games?

This issue worries not only the athletes themselves and their coaches. Any athlete knows how difficult the path to Olympic medal. It often takes years to achieve results hard training. Kolobkov P. A. focused on the fact that the country cannot simply turn a blind eye to such injustice, therefore special tournaments will be organized for athletes who did not make it to the 2018 Olympic Games.

According to the minister, invitations to participate in the competition will be sent out and sports committees other countries.

In the meantime, we are waiting for the start of the Winter Olympic Games and are preparing to root for those who managed to get onto the list of participants and will be able to adequately represent our country in Pyeongchang.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) adopted final decision for the admission of the Russian national team to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Domestic athletes will take part in competitions, but the verdict on each event will be made by international sports federations. Also, athletes with a doping past will not take part in the Games. We understand the nuances of the decision made.

Why did they want to exclude the team from the Olympics?

The independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), led by Richard McLaren, published a report on July 18 confirming accusations against Russia of manipulating doping samples during the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.

According to the document, the anti-doping laboratory in Moscow took steps to replace positive doping samples from the 2014 Olympics. In the laboratory in Sochi, work was organized to replace samples of athletes participating in the Games.

It was reported that the Russian Ministry of Sports controlled this process with the participation of the FSB, the Center sports training, as well as two laboratories. Information about positive doping tests from all sports was transmitted to Deputy Minister of Sports Yuri Nagornykh. Other Russian officials also knew that Russian athletes were using doping at Sochi 2014.

Also, the head of the independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Richard McLaren, did not make recommendations regarding Russia’s participation in Rio 2016 and Pyeongchang 2018.

According to McLaren, the situation with the manipulation of doping tests, which took place in Sochi, cannot be repeated either in Russia or abroad.

“We will never see what happened in Sochi anywhere else. We don’t know how it was done, but we know how it could have been done,” McLaren said.

Later, on July 21, a court in Lausanne banned Russian athletes of 68 people to take part in the Olympic Games due to a doping scandal. The IOC made a decision on the admission of the national team in other sports.

Under what conditions was Russia allowed to the Olympics?

Decided by fate Russian team hosted by a commission of 15 people led by the IOC President Thomas Bach and his deputy Nawal El-Matawakel. The meeting took place behind closed doors, but a day before British media information leaked that Russia would not be at the Games. At the end of the meeting in Lausanne, IOC head Bach decided not to make a final statement to reporters. Instead, press releases were distributed to media employees, which contained all the information.

The IOC members were inclined to the following decision: to admit athletes who were not convicted of doping and were not mentioned in the report of the chairman of the independent WADA commission, McLaren.

IOC head Thomas also said that no officials from the Russian Ministry of Sports will be accredited for the Olympics. The official also explained why the decision on the admission of athletes was transferred to the International Federations.

"It's all about fairness to clean athletes, and we protect them in this way. This decision may not have satisfied both sides who were for and against the disqualification of Russia. But we believe that our decision respects the law “clean” athletes to participate in competitions,” said Bach.

Immediately after this, the President of the Russian Olympic Committee made an official statement Alexander Zhukov, who confirmed that the IOC decided not to suspend the entire Russian team from the Olympics.

"Most of the data presented in the report McLaren, received from a person of very dubious reputation, who was suspended from sports activities in Russia and disqualified. This is exactly what WADA and the IAAF demanded. Now we know that he was the central figure in the criminal scheme he created. However, his testimony is not questioned. This doesn't hold water. Russia is fully committed to the fight against doping from a zero-tolerance standpoint. This is fundamental principle ROC work on this issue,” Zhukov said.

Now, in order to go to Rio, an athlete must pass doping tests in foreign laboratories. It is clear that not all domestic athletes meet these criteria. True, many leaders of international sports federations have already reported that they are ready to give the green light to Russian athletes. In particular, in handball, volleyball, aquatic species sports.

Which athletes will not go to Rio because of their doping past?

Another important and fair criterion of the IOC was the non-participation in the Games of athletes who have doping scandals in past. In particular, an informant for the International Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Yulia Stepanova definitely won't go to Brazil.

Perhaps the main loss will be the non-performance of the four-time world champion in swimming at the Olympics Yulia Efimova. She was diagnosed with the steroid hormone dehydroepiandrosterone in 2013. In her explanatory note, Efimova admitted using a food supplement containing a prohibited substance. The mistake cost her five Euro medals and a year and a half of downtime. Efimova’s agent Andrei Mitkov has already announced that they will seek access.

Also in Rio we definitely won’t see other representatives of swimming – Natalia Lovtsova, Mikhail Dovgolyuk, European swimming champion Anastasia Karabelshchikova, Olympic medalist in cycling Olga Zabelinskaya.

For track and field athletes, the decision also remained unchanged. Apart from jumper Daria Klishina, all other 68 athletes were not allowed to compete.

The Minister of Sports will also not go to Brazil. Vitaly Mutko, who has already thanked the IOC for decision for admission to the national team.

“The decision made by the IOC was balanced. In this case, based on the report of the independent WADA commission, it is objective, made in the interests of world sport and the unity of the Olympic family. We are grateful to the IOC for this decision,” Mutko said.

At the same time, it is already known that the investigation into McLaren will continue and the list of athletes who may be suspended may be expanded.

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Starting yesterday, news began to arrive about the already seemingly extremely humiliated and insulted Russian olympic sport. And they are even sadder.

After the Russian team was suspended from Winter Olympics V South Korea and allowing our athletes to go to Pyeongchang only as “neutrals”, the IOC commission for the admission of the Russian team handed over to the Russian sports federations a list of 111 names of athletes who are prohibited from participating in the Games in any capacity.

The logo that the IOC asked Russian athletes to wear on their neutral uniforms.

The list includes medalists and winners of the Sochi Olympics: six-time Olympic champion in short track Viktor An, Olympic champion in biathlon Anton Shipulin and two-time world champion in skiing Sergei Ustyugov. Many of the “banned” Russians were contenders for gold at the 2018 Winter Olympics. Also, the presenters were not allowed to participate in the competition. Russian hockey players, figure skaters Ksenia Stolbova and Ivan Bukin. Moreover, these two are from different couples.

An important detail: many of the ineligible athletes were never included in official doping investigations or suspect lists. There is a version that they may be. Or they simply took part in the “dirty” Olympics in Sochi. In any case, the IOC now, after making a decision to exclude Russia as a country from the Olympic Games in Korea, can remove (more precisely, not invite) any Russian athlete without publicly explaining anything.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov noted that short track speed skater Viktor An, biathlete Anton Shipulin and skier Sergei Ustyugov were not included in the list of participants in the 2018 Olympic Games. He also expressed hope that the situation will become clearer.

According to Russian sports officials, there is still hope that some suspended athletes will be able to compete for the participation, but there is little hope. Yesterday in Moscow there was a meeting of representatives of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) with the admission commission. Following its results, the first vice-president of the ROC, Stanislav Pozdnyakov, made the following statement:

Publication from Russian Olympic Committee 🇷🇺(@olympic_russia)

Jan 23, 2018 at 1:22 PST

Punishment and humiliation on Russian social networks Russian sports was taken very painfully. Once again, the majority are calling on the authorities to boycott the Games, and although it is clear that the Kremlin will not agree to it, people who usually support the authorities are in this case literally tearing and throwing around.

A generalizing and traditional point of view on what was happening was expressed by Dmitry Guberniev, a commentator on the Match TV channel. Spoiler: this is a war against Russia...

The first one expressed it more succinctly in Russian history Olympic champion in women's single skating Adelina Sotnikova.

But the words of Dmitry and Adelina are a light breeze compared to the tsunami of indignation from ordinary fans. Moreover, the general tone can be expressed by the phrase “it’s their own fault.” But the meaning of this phrase depends on the position of the commentator. Some believe that they are to blame for agreeing to go to Korea under a neutral flag. Others who first systematically doped athletes, and then did nothing to protect even “clean” athletes.

MINSK, February 9 – Sputnik. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected the appeals of 45 Russian athletes and two coaches who were not invited to the Pyeongchang Olympics, CAS Secretary General Mathieu Rieb announced at a specially called press conference on Friday.

"Today special unit CAS rejected the applications of 32 athletes not invited to the Olympics. It also denied another 15 Russians a statement against the IOC. The CAS arbitrators concluded that the process established by the IOC to create a list of invitations for Russian athletes to participate in the Olympic Games cannot be called a sanction. This is more of a compliance review decision,” Reeb told reporters.

According to the CAS Secretary General, this process will contribute to the global fight against doping.

Who was denied by CAS

CAS rejected the appeals of the following 32 Russians: Viktor An, Vladimir Grigoriev, Evgenia Zakharova, Denis Airapetyan, Artem Kozlov (all short track), Anton Shipulin, Evgeny Garanichev, Ekaterina Yurlova-Perkht, Maxim Tsvetkov, Irina Uslugina, Daria Virolainen, Alexey Volkov (all - biathlon), Ruslan Murashov, Ekaterina Shikhova, Ruslan Zakharov, Anna Yurakova, Alexey Yesin, Yulia Skokova, Elizaveta Kazelina, Sergey Gryaztsov (all - skating), Sergey Ustyugov, Gleb Retivykh (both ski race), Ksenia Stolbova, Ivan Bukin (both figure skating), Yulia Shokshueva, Roman Koshelev, Dmitry Popov (all bobsled), Mikhail Naumenkov, Alexey Bereglazov, Valery Nichushkin, Anton Belov, Sergey Plotnikov (all hockey).

Athletes from this list filed an appeal against the IOC decision on ineligibility.

Another group of 15 Russians filed a lawsuit against the IOC over the committee’s refusal to invite them to the Games, despite the positive verdict from CAS. As a result, on Friday, the CAS field office also did not uphold their appeal. This list is formed by the following Russians: Alexander Legkov, Maxim Vylegzhanin, Evgeny Belov, Alexander Bessmertnykh, Evgenia Shapovalova, Natalya Matveeva (all - skiing), Alexander Tretyakov, Elena Nikitina, Maria Orlova (all - skeleton), Olga Fatkulina, Alexander Rumyantsev, Artem Kuznetsov (all - speed skating), Tatyana Ivanova ( luge), as well as Albert Demchenko (luge) and Sergei Chudinov (skeleton), who switched to coaching after the 2014 Olympics.

Reaction to the refusal of the IOC and WADA

The International Olympic Committee said it welcomed the Court of Arbitration for Sport's (CAS) decision to reject the appeals of 47 Russians and said it supported the fight against doping and provided clarity for all athletes.

“We welcome the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which supports the fight against doping and provides clarity for all athletes,” the IOC’s official Twitter account said.

The decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport to reject the appeals of Russian athletes was also supported by WADA. The head of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), Craig Reedy, called it "welcome news."

"These decisions are welcome news for WADA, as well as for the athletes and all other people who engage in clean and fair sport at the Games. The timing of these decisions (before the opening ceremony of the Games) is very good, as this will reassure the athletes, because “Only “clean” Russians who meet strict anti-doping criteria will participate in the competition,” Reedy’s statement was posted on the WADA website.

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