Olympic champion Alexander Tikhonov criticized participation in biathlon in Russia legal betting.
“Ufa has a great stadium, but there were not even 100 people at the biathlon. I hope there are 200 people in Khanty-Mansiysk, everyone emphasizes our friendship with Guberniev, but I don’t care much. “A good shepherd’s flock does not disperse,” said Tikhonov.
In the spring of 2022, the International Biathlon Union (IBU) announced its decision to admit Belarusian and Russian biathletes to the World Cup and IBU stages only as neutral athletes. As a result, the Russians decided to skip the competition at the end of the 2021/22 season. In September 2022, the organization extended the suspension indefinitely. The last competition for biathletes was the Olympic Games in Beijing.
In January, Russian and Belarusian biathletes competed in the third stage of the Commonwealth Cup in Raubichi. The next stage starts in Murmansk in April.
Previously Tikhonov accepted With hatred for Norwegians.