This decision was made by officials of the IOC. The Russian Olympic Committee plans to appeal to international organizations with an official letter, as the athletes were “clean”.

Our athletes faced another ban from the International Olympic Committee. Recall that athletes, so we were not allowed to compete under the flag of Russia at the games in Pyongyang. Now it became known that two famous men did not go to South Korea. Anton Shipulin and Ustyugov Sergei was not included in the updated list of candidates for participation in the games. Together with them, the officials of the IOC struck out the name of the skater Viktor Ahn.

“They were not involved in proceedings at the Commission of Oswald, they never been implicated in any doping stories, and all of the many put them in career samples indicate that they are “clean” athletes. However, their names are in the list of potential participants of the Games are unavailable at this time”, – said the first Vice-President of the Olympic Committee of Russia Stanislav Pozdnyakov.

Initially it was assumed that the list will not delete “clean” athletes. However, the officials of the IOC decided to do otherwise.

“Unfortunately, in that list that we gave before, was not of a number of leading Russian athletes in several sports. Today we sent to the IOC an official letter with the request for specific reasons why the leaders of the Russian national teams in a number of sports not included in the list of potential participants of the Olympic games,” said Pozdnyakov.

Shipulin, for example, actively preparing to participate in the Games and also participated in the world Championships. The athlete has not commented on the information that it was removed from the list.

Besides these measures, the IOC can relate to athletes and other categories. The President of the Russian skating Union Alexei Kravtsov said that according to preliminary information, the skaters yuskov, Kulizhnikov, short of tregistry Zakharova, Borodulin and other strong athletes can not get into the game.

“On the men’s team we have 90% of the list in speed skating is rejected, none of the leaders yuskov, Kulizhnikov, according to preliminary information, the invitation will not receive. The women’s team rejected 80% of the application. There again, according to preliminary information, there will be only Olga Graf, angelina Golikova Natalya Voronina. Accordingly, the previously rejected application and Ruslan Zakharov, who previously appeared in a short track. We will send to the IOC payroll on distances, the final answer is expected on 28 January,” – said Kravtsov.