“The people who sit in the IOC are just out of their minds. Why, when one person is guilty, they put his entire family in prison? The Russian tennis team is now clean about doping. What does the IOC do? Deprives her of the opportunity to perform under her flag. For them, punishment comes first. In tennis, I see how many times our players take doping tests. There used to be a great slogan of the Olympic Games: "Faster, higher, stronger." Now the word "together" has been added to it. He has nothing to do with sports at all to the current situation. This is fragmentation. The words "faster, higher, stronger" - refer to sports, and "together" - has nothing to do with sports. I have a feeling that the IOC just went crazy, not understanding what he was doing, ”Chesnokov quotes Metaratings.ru.
Russia, due to the sanctions of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), until December 2022, has no right to compete at the Olympic Games and World Championships under its own flag and with its own anthem.
Earlier, for the first time, Tchaikovsky's music was performed at the OI award ceremony.