MOSCOW, February 9 due to doping problems, they are part of the information struggle, there is no official information, said a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Olympic champion in speed skating Svetlana Zhurova. Earlier, Inside The Games reported that the awards ceremony for winners and prize-winners in team competitions was postponed due to problems that one of the Russian skaters allegedly had with a doping test. «Imagine, now the athletes have to sit in such an environment for three days and they will soon perform on their own, someone has already started, but someone else has yet to. And such a situation — yesterday you were an Olympic champion, and today your medal is being taken away, and no one yet understands why, because official sources have not yet announced anything.This is part of such an information struggle , unfortunately, against us,» Zhurova said. Zhurova herself suggested that the problem could also be related to obtaining therapeutic permits.
