President Dmitri Medvedev have called on Russian Olympics officials to “take the brave decision and submit their resignations”, following the country’s less-than-satisfactory performance in the last Winter Olympics games.

“If they cannot do it, we will help them,” says Medvedev in a report by the BBC. “For a long time we have benefited from Soviet achievements, at some point they ran out.”

Russia exited the Olympics at 11th place, acquiring only three gold medals. However, Russia had been experiencing a steady decline in their Olympic performances since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, even though the country had once been considered to be a ‘winter sports powerhouse’.

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