Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation on Physical Culture and Sports Alexei Kulakovsky revealed the secret of the Polyshinel. He said that at the Winter Games in 2018 in Pyeongchang, Russia suffered a complete fiasco. "If we call things by their own names, at the Olympics in Pyeongchang we failed. Nobody speaks publicly about this, but this is a complete failure both in sports performance and in all others:.

organizational, international, socio-political and other, "Kulakovsky admitted at an expanded meeting of the board of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency on Wednesday, April 18. The official touched, in particular, the problem of athletes taking illegal drugs. "Doping cases of Russian athletes at the Olympic Games in Korea indicate the unsatisfactory work of all their participants, including FMBA," - quotes R-Sport "words of Kulakovsky. Recall the question of the use of doping by Russians in Phenchhai rose twice: in the bobsledder's sample of Nadezhda Sergeeva, trimetazidine was found, and in the curler's sample of Alexander Krushelnytsky - a huge dose of meldonia. The latter case caused confusion even for WADA experts. An investigation was ordered.

But the bronze medal, which the athlete received in the competition for double-mix, had to pass.

In total, the Russians brought from Pyeongchang two gold medals - in female figure skating and in men's hockey, six silver and nine bronze. It should be noted that the athletes competed under the neutral flag as representatives of the team of "Olympic athletes from Russia". On the disqualification of the Russian national team, the IOC Executive Committee announced in December 2017. Only the sportsmen who managed to obtain the personal permission of the IOC were admitted to the games. As a result, the majority of Russian applicants for medals could not take part in the Games.