Tatyana Tarasova, honored figure skating coach of the USSR, said that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has the right to punish the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) for including representatives of new regions of Russia. Tarasova quotes his words RIA News.
It included representations of the PRC, DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
“We probably had the right to include the regions in the PRC, and the IOC had the right to hold us accountable for that. It was necessary to present a serious international document to the IOC, which would explain that these are our new regions. But this document was not supposed to be from Russia,” Tarasova said.
At the end of February 2022, the International Olympic Committee appealed to international sports federations, recommending that domestic and Belarusian athletes not be allowed to participate in any competitions due to the political situation.
Previous OCD Reacted He will be suspended by the IOC.