MOSCOW, March 3, Sergey Pogrebnyak. Honored coach of the USSR in figure skating Tatyana Tarasova called the exclusion of Russian Paralympic athletes from participation in the Games in Beijing a mockery. On Thursday, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) decided to suspend representatives of Russia and Belarus from participation in the Paralympics due to a possible boycott by foreign athletes amid the aggravation of the situation in Ukraine. «This is But the Paralympians… Why torture people like that? They are to blame for something? No! That's all,» Tarasova said. Earlier, the IPC allowed Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete in Beijing in a neutral status, but the decision was changed. The Paralympic Games in Beijing will be held March 4-13.
