Maleeva wrote:Bumping up.
The IOC will decide on Dec 5 if Russia can compete at the Olympics. My guess is they will be allowed to compete, even if perhaps as neutral athletes.
I really think few if any figure skaters are breaking these drug rules. I for one, would miss all of the Russian skaters at the Olympics and all four skating disciplines would be greatly impacted, especially the ladies. It would just cast a large shadow over skating at these games and the medals won would for me always have a *** by the names of the medal winners. “Oh yeah, that was the year so and so won a medal because Russia was banned from the games”.
http://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id ... r-olympics
So you are saying Russia is banned but Russians aren’t? That’s total nonstarter for everyone in power in Russia when it comes to the Olympics. They agreed to it for IAAF world championships and maybe they would agree to it for Olympics But unless they all want to run for re-election as flip floppers it’s not happening! My guess is russia bans any travel to South Korea for sports related reasons in February of 2018! That’s the only way for it to work logistically. Or any athlete who competes in South Korea as a neutral athlete is permanently banned from participating in sports in Russia again!