Can Russian athletes just compete with others in the world when the Russian army has been killing civilians and destroying homes in Ukraine for a year? How many Russian athletes have distanced themselves from the war, and can they at all? The debate on the (non-)participation of Russian athletes in major world competitions and the Olympic Games was taken up with vigour by the 1998 Nagano Olympic champion, former hockey goalkeeper Dominik Hašek. The interview with him was conducted by Petr Fischer.   You wrote a letter to the NHL, ATP and WTA calling on them to ban Russian sportsmen and women from competing. What did they actually reply to you?   I did not receive any response. Neither publicly