The former head of the Russian Olympic Committee, and now his honorary president, Leonid Tyagachev, commented very emotionally on the doping scandal in Russian sport at today's press conference. "We apologized, we began to work, we began to create our own laboratory, we did not break anything, we did everything that we need to do in a year. But we are again, as the athletes say, fucked with all their strength. And we do not know what will happen next, "- quotes Tyagachev REN-TV. He noted that the situation around the participation of Russian athletes in the Games-2018 is currently "extremely unfavorable". "Time is short, courts go. As you can guess, the received installations are not in favor of our Olympians. Team beheaded by deducting athletes from the Olympics, "- quotes Tyagacheva Life. On Wednesday, January 31, a meeting of the ROC Executive Committee will take place, at which the composition of the Russian team for the Olympics in South Korean Pyeongchang will be discussed. Earlier it became known that in the Games-2018 will be able to participate 169 of our athletes. At the same time, the IOC did not invite a number of leading Russian athletes to the Olympics, among them biathlete Anton Shipulin, skier Sergei Ustyugov, short tracker Viktor An, skaters Pavel Kulizhnikov and Denis Yuskov, figure skaters Xenia Stolbova and Ivan Bukin. Today the site "Championship. com "published the text of the letter of the president of the International Ski Federation (FIS) Gianfranco Casper to the International Olympic Committee, in which he demanded to explain the reason for not allowing clean Russians to the Olympics. "The last list of Russian athletes who are not invited to the Games raises big questions.

We learned about this from the press, as well as from other third-party sources, but for some reason not from official representatives of the IOC. This is extremely disappointing and calls into question the fruitfulness of the work of the winter federations with the IOC, "wrote the president of FIS. He believes that if the athletes who were suspended in January used dope, the federations of winter sports did not perform their duties properly. "This calls into question our competence. We believe that you understand our position and expect an operational response, "- said Kasper.