MOSCOW, July 12, Oleg Bogatov.President of the Russian Fencing Federation and head coach of the national team Ilgar Mammadov said that if athletes miss the 2023 World and European Championships, the chances of scoring rating points for participating in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris will be extremely small. Former President of the World Anti-Doping Agency Craig Reedy Monday said that due to the recommendations of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Russians 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. «We start selection for the Olympic Games on April 1, 2023. We have a chance to win licenses. But we must take into account the factor that we will start from scratch, because the rating of our athletes is falling due to non-participation in competitions and by April it will be gone altogether. to the competition, it will be more and more difficult for us. The later we are allowed to participate in qualifying starts, the harder it will be, because there will be fewer and fewer competitions,» Mammadov said. «If our team is in the top four of the world ranking, then goes directly to the Olympics, and, accordingly, our athletes will compete in both team and individual competitions. ytinga, then you have to be the best from Europe — in places from fifth to eighth. But if we miss the 2023 World and European Championships, then we can assume that we have practically no chance of qualifying for the Olympics. Because the World Championship, one might say, gives triple points in the ranking, and the continental championship gives double points,» the agency's interlocutor added.
