MOSCOW, March 18 Honored coach of the USSR Tatyana Tarasova told how international isolation Russian athletes will affect the development of sports in the country. «Domestic sports without international starts will not develop. If isolation continues, this will lead to a global decline. We can only believe that all this will not last so long,» Tarasova quotes «RBC- Sport. At the end of February, the IOC recommended that international sports federations not allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in their competitions due to the situation around Russia and Ukraine. A number of IFs have followed this recommendation, others have admitted neutral athletes.
