Three-time bronze medalist in blind judo Viktoria Potapova, Olympic Champion Svetlana Zhurova, Andrei Fomochkin, head of the winter sports department at the Belarus Ministry of Sport and Tourism, Lidiya Abramova, vice-president of the Russian Paralympic Committee, vice-president of the Russian Society of the Blind, president of the Blind Athletes' Federation, and Oleg Shepel, chairman of the Belarus Paralympic Committee, at the multimedia news conference, during which the Russian flag carried by Belarusians at the 2017 Paralympic Games opening cermeony in Rio de Janeiro to support the disqualified Russian athletes was handed over to Russia.