February 5 , 2018 – FRN –
Rusvesna – translated by Inessa Sinchougova
Officers of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have disrupted the first training session of Russian women’s hockey players in South Korea, just before the start of the 2018 Olympic Games.
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Two hours before the start of the training, 16 athletes were forced to go to a “doping control” station, because of which the women did not have enough time to begin the training.
“The team had a difficult move here today, as the luggage was delayed. We did not have time for the evening’s scheduled training – half of the team was taken away by doping officers.”
“In the current political situation, I want to show and prove to everyone that we are a capable team,” said the head coach of the women’s team, Alexei Chistyakov on the air of Match TV.