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Four-time Olympic biathlon champion Alexander Tikhonov said that the Russian national team "a lot of innocent people." About this newspaper Kommersant. Tikhonov did not specify whom he meant – Biathlon, coaches or employees of the Russian Biathlon Union (RBU). According to Tikhonov, strangers create a team of "excessive nervousness." Tikhonov said the coaches' act with caution "and" under the new owners "afraid" of extra word to say. " Do athletes themselves, according to Tikhonov, the eyes "of fear, like a rabbit, run." According to Tikhonov, the Russian biathletes have to change the method of preparation, and to adjust their tactics. The Olympic champion said that the Russians start the race on a par with the leaders, but by the end of distance "blown away". At the eighth stage of the World Cup in the U.S. Fort Kent – the last before the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk – the Russians did not win any medals. At the end stage of the men's team leader Ivan Tcherezov called the season a failure, and stressed that failure to create a team of heavy emotional background. Tikhonov, from 1996 to 2008 served as president of the RRF. In 2008 this position was replaced by Tikhonov businessman Mikhail Prokhorov, and Olympic champion, became vice-president of the organization. In summer 2010 Tikhonov resigned, accusing the leadership of the RRF's incompetence. In January 2011, Prokhorov proposed 64-year Tikhonov return Biathlon Union.