MOSCOW, January 21, Andrey Senchenko. Four-time Olympic champion Oleksandr Tikhonov believes that the biathletes of the Ukrainian national team were strongly advised to avoid joint photos with the Russians at the 2022 Games and not to give interviews in Russian. According to a source familiar with the situation, this recommendation was made during a conversation between Ukrainian biathletes and the country’s Ministry of Sports on January 20. “To ban Ukrainian athletes from communicating with Russians is an absolutely headless decision. The Ukrainian authorities continue their policy. the moment that their people wake up and fight back these clowns. The only thing left for the athletes to do is to act as the government orders them. Our athletes will not be offended and will correctly understand the behavior of their Ukrainian colleagues, on whom nothing depends. Although I hope that the Russians and Ukrainians, like at the previous Games, they will embrace with their flags and with their gesture they will expose politicians as boobies,» Tikhonov said.
