MOSCOW, February 25 Artemy Gelmanov, coach of the Russian junior national cross-country skiing team, told how the skiers were deprived of the victory in the relay at the Junior World Championships, which takes place in Ligne (Norway). After the finish of the relay race, the Russian team was declared the winner. In the protocol, the gap between the Russians and the Norwegian team was 0.2 seconds. Then the gap was reduced to 0.1 seconds, and the judges started watching the photo finish, as a result, giving the victory to the Norwegians. «We were champions for several minutes. And then we were simply confronted with the fact that the victory was awarded to the Norwegian team in the photo finish. But this photo finish is not for us showed. I'm sure the jury had clear video materials and photographs. But it would be correct to show them to the Russian team immediately after the finish, to explain what was happening. The situation was actually controversial. None of the Russian delegation was allowed into the jury room. Then our head coach Vladimir Danilovich Timofeev said that two judges were on the side of Norway during the analysis of the photo finish, two were on the side of Russia. that the vote of the Technical Delegate Anna Rosa was decisive in favor of Norway. The specialist emphasized the ambiguity of the situation, stating that the photo finish should not cause any disagreement among the judges.
