MOSCOW, April 22 President of the Russian Swimming Federation (VFTU) Vladimir Salnikov said , which he expected from the International Swimming Federation (FINA) to fully justify the act of two-time Olympic champion Yevgeny Rylov. FINA on Friday announced the removal of Rylov from competitions under the auspices of the organization for 9 months for participating in a gala concert in honor of the Day of the reunification of Crimea with Russia, which took place on 18 March at Luzhniki. Earlier, the FINA disciplinary commission opened a case against Rylov. «The FINA decision on Yevgeny Rylov is, to put it mildly, bewildering. I confess that I was sure that there would be a full justification of Yevgeny's act, who did not take any reprehensible actions, and even more so discrediting the title of Olympic champion The WFTU decided to request from FINA all the information on this trial for analysis and further actions on this issue,» the WFTU website quotes Salnikov.
