The International Olympic Committee is reaping rotten fruits from a stunted tree, which he himself planted, hitting the WADA bait, when he first ousted Russian athletes from the Olympics, and then one by one, then again allowed them to the competitions. Many times repeated "dirty" to the Russians, including those unfairly accused of allegedly using dope, it is now difficult to erase their opponents from the brains, even repeating the aki mantra - "clean, clean, clean". And these rivals - some of them - behave towards our athletes somehow not in a sporting way, in the sense that they are generally unethical in the borders of the Olympic lists, which does not correspond to the honest spirit of competition. It went so far that the IOC had to react to this. Today it became known that member of the executive committee of the committee Gunilla Lindberg criticized those athletes who ignore the "Olympic athletes from Russia" at the Games in Pyeongchang. On this Friday, February 16, writes Inside the Games. She stated that she was "very sad" to hear about a number of incidents that happened to our Olympians in South Korea. "I think it's very sad, because we know for sure that Russian athletes who came to the Games passed a lot of doping tests, their samples were checked repeatedly. Do not talk with your opponents - not in the Olympic spirit. I hope that the measures we adopted showed that we did not punish "clean" athletes, "Lindberg noted.. With the unfair attitude of foreign rivals in their address, "clean" Russians faced before the very opening ceremony of the Olympics, when someone from the delegation of Canada with some claims "ran over" our representative. The incident was quickly disrupted, the Canadians were put in sight, after which the head of the delegation apologized. British Olympic champion in skeleton Elizabeth Yarnold said that when meeting with athletes from Russia will look at the floor. Intentionally refuse to communicate with their Russian rivals and some Americans. Skeletonist from the United States, the bronze medalist of the Sochi Olympics, Matthew Antoine, said that he does not believe that our players competed honestly in those Games, so do not cheer with them. This, in fact, confirmed the "Sport-Express" skeletonist Nikita Tregubov. He told the publication that Americans and Canadians prefer not to greet him. Meanwhile, while the current member of the IOC is trying to calm down and direct the true athletes, the former head of the World Anti-Doping Agency Richard Pound decided to throw the firewood into the Olympic fire of Pyeongchang. Retired from WADA urged not to allow the appearance at the closing ceremony of the Games of Russian athletes with state symbols, including the flag of Russia, writes ZDF.

"Personally, I can not accept this. The Russians did not admit anything, did not admit anything, behaved aggressively and constantly sued the courts for all decisions. If they go under their flag, then it will be a huge mistake, an incorrect signal, "Pound said and added that he would leave Pyeongchang in protest if our athletes were allowed to carry tricolor. Well, well, we'll wait on February 25 to ascertain whether the mind will triumph or the IOC will again be on the sidelines of inadequacies.