MOSCOW, Jan 19 The Russian Biathlon Union (RBU) and the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) should intervene in the incident with the extension of the quarantine for the Russian biathlete Eduard Latypov, the attitude towards restrictions for athletes in connection with the coronavirus should be the same for everyone, Dmitry Svishchev, head of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture and Sports, believes. Latypov on January 6 at the World Cup in German Oberhof was isolated due to infection with coronavirus 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 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 declared for the next stage in Antholz-Anterselva, which starts on January 20. «I think that here it is necessary for the Russian Biathlon Union and the Russian Olympic Committee to intervene. As always, on the eve of the Games, not entirely clear things begin in relation to our athletes,» Svishchev said in a comment for journalists. his schedule for preparing for the Beijing Olympics. «I believe that the application of restrictions to athletes in the fight against coronavirus should be the same for everyone. It is not clear why the German biathlete is released from quarantine, and our Eduard Latypov continues to be marinated there, — politician added.
