18-07-2014, 09:01 PM
I might be missing something, but why is Kirsan intervening a bad thing here? Clearly the organisers are out of order to start excluding teams, so if you have to put pressure on them to sort it then so be it. Any FIDE president should be using their power in this situation. I get the feeling the threat of moving the Olympiad is more a threat than anything. Though nothing else, he knows full well he would turn too many federations against him if he moved it to Sochi at such short notice.