KAZAN, April 24, Vadim Kuznetsov. Head of the All-Russian Swimming Federation (VFTU) Vladimir Salnikov said that swimmer Yevgeny Rylov was provided with legal support, and later a decision would be made on a possible appeal against the decision of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) to suspend the athlete. in honor of the Day of the reunification of Crimea with Russia, which took place on March 18 at Luzhniki. Earlier, the FINA disciplinary commission opened a case against Rylov. «Zhenya and his lawyers are studying all the documents in this case, and after analyzing all the wording, a decision will be made on further actions. We provided Evgeny with assistance and provided him with lawyers. I expected that there would be no no sanctions at all, since his presence at the concert is not an event that was held under the auspices of some federation, where you could not perform with some slogans.But there were no slogans either.FINA considered that it was detrimental to it. One can argue with this endlessly, but now many decisions are made biased. It is disappointing that such an episode occurred and such a decision was made. Rylov was also charged with a violation of the code of ethics, but this violation was removed,» Salnikov told reporters. Rylov is a two-time Olympic champion of the Games in Tokyo, the swimmer also won silver in the Japanese capital. Rylov is a two-time world champion and three-time winner of the world short course championship.
