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MOSCOW, January 20, Sergey Pogrebnyak. Former head coach of the Russian national team Anatoly Khovantsev believes that the leadership of the Russian Olympic Committee should intervene in the situation with the extension of the quarantine of biathlete Eduard Latypov. On January 6, at the World Cup stage in Oberhof, Germany, Latypov was isolated due to coronavirus infection and spent 14 days in quarantine. On Wednesday, the head coach of the Russian men's national team, Yuri Kaminsky, said that China had announced the need for Latypov to be quarantined for another eight days. On January 12, it also became known that the German biathlete Johannes Kühn received a positive test result for coronavirus, because of which he missed the home stage of the World Cup in Ruhpolding, but he was announced for the next stage in Antholz, which starts on January 20. «Latypov's case is not isolated. «I have a coach friend who works in China. He was in Finland at the training camp, where he passed a positive test for coronavirus. And just like that, they are now not allowed back to China, requiring them to wait additional days. But, of course, Latypov's situation is out of the ordinary. out. He was in good condition, preparing for the Games, and now he is being stopped like this. The leadership of the Russian Biathlon Union and the country's Olympic Committee needs to get involved and resolve this issue, «Khovantsev said.