Western journalists continue to rave about the participation of pure Russian athletes at the Olympics in Pyeongchang, despite the long-running doping scandal. Some media representatives agreed that they calculated in the team "Olympic athletes from Russia" scouts Shtirlits and Kat. Such a brilliant discovery made columnist Yahoo News Dan Wetzel. He noted our curling pair in a double-mix, which unsuccessfully started the day before, on February 8, in a match with a duo from the USA. The Russians lost to the Americans, but then won the next three meetings - Norway, Finland and China. "In fact, it was not officially Russia," the journalist writes.. He reminds that Russia is prohibited on these Games, because it systematically fed doping to its athletes, "creating a complex system" to hide this fact. However, it was exposed, according to the columnist. Therefore, the IOC first ousted the Russians, but then again started to let them in. "Russia is not here, but 168" Olympic athletes from Russia "are competing, even after the Arbitration Court rejected on Friday the appeal of 47 other. That is, even Russian Olympians are agents under cover, "the author of the article makes an unexpected conclusion. The essence of the decision of the International Olympic Committee is that it is necessary to punish Russia, but it is impossible to punish athletes whose violations can not be proved. "Anyone who has not received a stake in a nickel mining company in the Urals, it is clear that the IOC does not really punish Russia," says Wetzel. Further, as a mantra, it repeats a mythical story about the FSB, scratches in test tubes, holes in a specially built building for a laboratory in Sochi, night machinations with analyzes, about the hard fate of the runaway doctor Grigori Rodchenkov. In his opinion, many of those Russian athletes who won claims in the Sports Arbitration Court could do this because the Russian Anti-Doping Agency destroyed direct evidence. And so, the journalist writes, our Olympians arrived in South Korea. "It's not for nothing that two Olympic athletes from Russia who fought in mixed curling, Alexander Krushelnytsky and Anastasia Bryzgalova look as if they are ready for casting. Bryzgalov seemed to have come out directly from the James Bond film, and Krushelnytsky from "The Fast and the Furious". In fact, the Russians troll the whole world, sending a team that looks like double agents to a curling competition in a double mix, "- sums up Wetzel.

Now it is necessary to add that the American couple brother and sister Becky and Matt Hamilton, which in Pyeongchang are not considered favorites, won yesterday only one meeting, beating our Stirlitz and Kat. US representatives then lost to Canadians, Koreans and Swiss. Meanwhile, the Russian duo - a married couple from St. Petersburg, world champions 2016 - at the tournament is considered the strongest. The next round of the competition begins on the night of February 10 with a match between the PRC and the USA. In the semi-finals go teams that took 1-4 places.