Russian tennis players Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Andrei Rublev won Olympic gold in mixed doubles for the first time

Yesterday it became known that Serbian tennis players Novak Djokovic and Nina Stoyanovic did not show up for the match for the bronze medals of the Olympics. Thanks to this, Australian tennis players Jones Pierce and Ashley Barty became bronze medalists of the Games in the mixed pairs competition.

On the same day, Djokovic, who is the first racket in the world, lost the match for bronze in singles. Thus, Djokovic, who arrived at the Olympics as one of the favorites of the tennis tournament, leaves Tokyo without medals.

This is the twelfth gold medal at the Olympics for Russian athletes. They are ranked 5th in the medal standings.

Russian athletes at these Games do not compete under the flag of the country, but under the flag of the Russian Olympic Committee, since the Russian Federation has been barred from participating in the Olympic Games until December 2022 due to manipulation of doping samples by the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory.

According to WADA, the laboratory falsified the results of tests intended for transmission to the World Anti-Doping Agency. The organization claimed that the information had been forged for a year and a half.

In addition, civil servants of the Russian Federation and the leadership of the ROC and the PKR, by the decision of the committee, are prohibited from attending international sports events.

At the same time, Russian athletes who have not been noticed in doping violations are allowed to compete under a neutral flag and without performing the national anthem.