MOSCOW, July 12, Oleg Bogatov. President of the Russian Wrestling Federation Mikhail Mamiashvili said that if athletes are allowed to participate in international competitions next year, they will have time to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Craig Reedy, said on Monday that due to the recommendations of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC), Russian athletes will not be able to qualify for the 2024 Olympics. At the end of February, the IOC recommended that international sports federations not allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in competitions due to the situation in Ukraine. A number of international federations excluded Russians and Belarusians from tournaments under their auspices, and also canceled competitions in Russia, other federations allowed athletes in a neutral status. «Our qualifying competitions for the Games will be held almost before the start of the Olympics itself. Therefore, the chances of winning licenses «We have, the main thing is to get permission to start competing in competitions. But today it is very difficult to analyze the current situation. If next year we start competing in the qualifying competitions for the Olympic Games, then everything should be fine with us,» Mamiashvili said.
