Russia has become the master of denial in recent years. From military incursions to hacking to assassinations, the Kremlin has sworn blind it’s not involved.
BBC: Russian athletes wait in fear of fresh world ban
Anastasia Fesikova trains in a swimming pool in the town of Obninsk in the Kaluga region, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Moscow, on Dec. 3, 2019. Silver medallist at the London Olympics, multiple European and world champion, Anastasia Fesikova hopes to participate next summer in Tokyo in her 4th Olympic Games. In the Obninsk swimming pool, 100 kilometres from Moscow, the 29-year-old swimmer says she does not think about the risk of exclusion from her country. "I'm trying to ignore all this," she says in an AFP interview. She says she wishes "that our destiny, our work, would not be held hostage to political games, because I know how much (athletes) have to work, how much there is at stake - all this is to go to the Olympic Games.
