PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — The United States biathlon team has announced it will boycott the final IBU World Cup meet in Russia next month.
The U.S. athletes released a statement Saturday saying that the International Biathlon Union’s recent decision to move forward with the March 22-25 event in Tyumen, Russia — despite a recent doping scandal in that country — is “completely unacceptable.”
The statement says, “In support of clean sport and our own physical safety, we cannot in good conscience participate.”
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