If you lose to a Russian player, you are eliminated, but "Asian players are not harmed"?

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Concerns are growing as Russian and Belarusian players are likely to participate in the Asian Games in Hangzhou this year.

There will be no damage to Asian players, but confusion seems inevitable.

This is reporter Kwon Jong-oh.

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Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) notified 45 member countries that Russian and Belarusian athletes will participate in the Asian Games, emphasizing that they will not affect the medals and rankings of Asian athletes.

"Russian athletes will not be competing in speculative events," Randir Singh, the acting president of OCA from India, told local media.

In the case of boxing as a tournament, if an Asian player loses to a Russian player in the first round, there is no way to salvage it.

However, OCA has not been able to take a position on how to play ball games and record games.

For example, if an Asian team is knocked out by Russia in the soccer group stage, there is no sharp way to salvage it.

Confusion is inevitable even in record matches, which seem to have relatively few problems.

In the case of the 100m track and field event, the preliminaries, semifinals, and finals are held sequentially.

[Korean Olympic Committee officials: There is no explanation for the number of cases according to the characteristics of numerous events.

(Confusion) Of course.

Because this is not the case.]

The Korea Sports Council plans to send an official inquiry to the OCA within this week to identify potential problems and prepare countermeasures.

(Video editing: Nam Il)