Ways of counteracting negative effects of politicization of sports in the assessments of expert survey’s participants

In the last few years, there has been unprecedented politicization of high-performance sports. Despite the fact that Russian scholars are actively analyzing various aspects related to this process, methods of combating manifestations of discriminatory policies towards Russian athletes remain insufficiently studied. The author offers a set of options for counteracting the politicization of sports that Russia could hypothetically use in the current situation, and finds out the attitude of representatives of the expert community towards them. It turned out that the most effective means of combating negative effects of politicization today may be more active protection of domestic athletes by legal means, the use of sports diplomacy tools and widespread dissemination of pro-Russian media narratives in the global information space. It also turned out that the idea of holding our own, alternative international competitions does not currently arouse much enthusiasm among experts.