Biathlon world is waiting for the end of the season, which will be held in Tyumen at the end of March, but the team of the United States, the Czech Republic and Canada will not come to Russia in full force. To them, join several other biathletes from different countries, including Swede Sebastian Samuelsson. He announced a boycott of the competitions and even hoped that the international organization would take the right to hold it from our country. After such statements, the athlete was threatened with cruel reprisals. "They [the messages] were threatened to shoot me in Russia, because I was a bad person, they wrote that they wanted death for my whole family," he quotes SVT. At the same time Samuelsson believes that Russian organizers will not be able to organize safety for athletes.

In his opinion, the International Biathlon Union retains these competitions only because the organization has a lot of corruption. It is interesting that the boycott of the stage in Tyumen does not support the head coach of Sweden Wolfgang Pichler, reports Expressen.. "I have a different opinion. We live in a democracy, and if he wants to boycott, he can do it, "he added.. Swede instead of the Russian stage plans to compete in the national championship in cross-country skiing.