The Japanese company Asics, which is the official supplier of the form of the wrestling Federation of Russia, has threatened to stop deliveries of equipment of the Russian athletes in the case that among the Russian wrestlers will be re-revealed cases of doping.
At the same time representatives of the company emphasize that Asics will continue to cooperate with Russia as long as the international sports organization will be allowed up to the competition “clean” fighters of the Russian team, reported in the material The Times, the translation of which publishes Inotv.
“While the United world wrestling — world wrestling administrative authority based federations. — RT) continues to allow “clean” of Russian athletes for the Olympic games in 2016, Asics, as the official provider of uniforms of the wrestling Federation of Russia will continue to support the athletes, delivering them shoes and clothes”, — quotes the edition of message Asics.
“If Asics become aware of new allegations of doping (in the Russian wrestlers. — RT) in anticipation of or during the Games, we will review the current state of Affairs,” the company said.
As the paper notes, among athletes not allowed to participate in the upcoming Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, featured Victor Lebedev — the owner of gold medals of the world Championships freestyle wrestling 2010 and 2011, which was one of the favorites of the Games in Rio. All of the 387 members of the Olympic team of Russia the ban on participation in the 2016 Olympics has touched 115 athletes, the author of the material.
