Russian Luge Federation President Natalia Gart claims to feel "very
great human disappointment" at being removed from the FIL Executive
Board over the war in Ukraine.
Russian Olympic Committee President Stanislav Pozdnyakov claims there
has been a "breakdown of the integrity of the Olympic Movement" but
remains hopeful that his country will "triumphantly return to the
world stage".
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Natalia Gart is set to be re-elected President of the Russian Luge
Federation - an organisation which narrowly avoiding being expelled
from the International Luge Federation earlier his month - un-opposed.
Austria is set to stage the International Luge Federation's Congress
for the second consecutive year, after Latvia was forced to withdraw
"for administrative and logistical reasons".