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A fragment of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto for Piano and Orchestra will be performed during the award ceremonies for Russian athletes at the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo and Beijing in the current and forthcoming years. The melody was approved by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), TASS reports.
The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) had to reconcile the melody for the ceremonies at the World Championships and the Games due to the sanctions of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which banned the use of the Russian anthem and flag at these international competitions for two years.
According to the head of the ROC Stanislav Pozdnyakov, the coordination of Tchaikovsky's music at the IOC was not easy. Russkiy Mir reported that in March the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected the use of the Katyusha melody proposed by Russian athletes at the Olympiads and world championships.
The head of the ROC noted that earlier in the IOC other symbols of the Russian national team were approved - the Russians will perform under the flag of the ROC, which has the colors of the tricolor. According to Stanislav Pozdnyakov, the flag will make it easy to identify the Russian athlete to both compatriots and foreigners.
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