20:00, 16 January 2010

"Triple" from Belarus refuses to build biathlon complex in Sochi

The Belarusian Company "Triple" has given up its plans of building a biathlon complex in Sochi for Olympiad-2014. As reported by the "Gazprom" and "Sochi-2014" Organizing Committee, the reason of demarche was Russia's refusal to grant export oil discounts to Belarus.

"Earlier, discounts covered the whole scope of shipments; however, now Russia is ready to discount only a small amount of exported oil, while the "Triple" is close to Belarusian government and gave up its project in Sochi on political reasons," one of the companies busy with Olympic construction have stated.

The newspaper "Vedomosti" reports that the refusal of the Belarusian counterpart means that now the "Gazprom" will have to combine its built race ski tack with the biathlon one.

Meanwhile, Yuri Chizh, owner of the "Triple" group of companies, asserts that the decision to reject construction of the biathlon complex in Sochi was made in mid-2009 and has nothing to do with Russian oil shipment terms to Belarus, as reported by the Belarusian newspaper "Belorusskaya Delovaya Gazeta".