MOSCOW, Sep 16 Head of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach in In his speech at the Congress of the International Biathlon Union (IBU), he announced the option of allowing Russians to participate in international competitions without a national identity, Sergey Averyanov, head of the press service of the Russian Biathlon Union (RBU), said on his Telegram channel. Earlier, the IBU suspended Russian and Belarusian athletes from competitions under its auspices athletes and suspended the membership of the RBU and the Belarusian Biathlon Federation (BFB) amid the situation in Ukraine. These decisions were taken in accordance with the recommendation of the IOC. The congress will consider the recommendations at a meeting in Salzburg on September 15-18. «The congress began with a video message from the head of the IOC, Thomas Bach. It left an ambivalent impression: speaking of Russian and Belarusian athletes, he did not directly say that they should be removed. He even voiced the option of their admission to international starts without a national identity. But in general, Bach washed his hands — decide, they say, for yourself, «Averyanov wrote.
