Russian gymnast, two-time Olympic champion Svetlana Khorkina emotionally commented on the withdrawal of the Russian national team from the 2018 Olympics.

According to the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), only "clean" athletes and neutral flag can participate in the Games.

"Cracked the foundation of the entire international Olympic movement ... How will we live on?.

Honestly, I hope that there will be some changes later ... But today it's even difficult for me to comment on this. How can I block the ban on participating in the opening and closing of the Olympic Games? !! What have we got to? !!.

Break the great power of Russia? !! No, it will not work.. This country - in big Russian letters - has an army, nuclear weapons and great people, "said Khorkina, who is quoted by" Sport-Express ".

She also said that the IOC signed in its worthlessness.

Recall, on December 5, the IOC suspended the membership of the Russian Olympic Committee, and the Russian national team was disqualified from the 2018 Olympics. "Pure" Russian athletes can perform in Pyeongchang under the Olympic flag.

The decision was made on the basis of the conclusions reached by the two commissions: Denis Oswald and Samuel Schmidt. The first was engaged in a re-examination of doping samples of participants of the Olympic Games in Sochi, the second investigated the involvement of Russian officials in doping frauds.

Recall, for the use of doping IOC has already selected from Russia 11 medals. Russia lost the first place in the Olympics in Sochi on the number of medals.

In 2016, a doping scandal broke out after the reports of McLaren, who led the WADA investigation.

They said that Russian athletes were involved in the manipulation of doping tests at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. In addition, Mutko was accused of doping fraud, and the replacement of doping tests with "clean" was involved senior officials of Russia.