A row is raging over Russians competing in the Olympics and Wimbledon. Why does Russia care so much?
By Vitaly ShevchenkoWhile Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine drags into its second year, its athletes are hoping to get back on the sports field.
Like other countries Russia has been keen to use international sport to showcase the nation's athletic prowess. The Defence Ministry in Moscow has for decades been running extensive programmes to train sportspeople who went on to achieve remarkable success.The best-known such programme is called the Central Sports Club of the Army . It employs hundreds of coaches, operates scores of sites across Russia and is reportedly training more than 10,000 athletes.
Defence minister Sergei Shoigu met the military athletes at a ceremony after the competition to hand them awards and to tell them to start preparing for the next Olympics.
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