jacqueline bouvier here taking over for nicky aaron we continue with our breaking news coverage for more on what a decision we're now joined live by alex say at a chef ski what does competing under a neutral flag mean for athletes you know 1st and foremost jackie it's about psychological pressure obviously you are training in a country you are representing a country you are going to a major sporting event like the olympic games but you are not even allowed to bear the flag of your country so as it happened in the previous case when russia was suspended as a nation and had to compete on the neutral flag on the olympic flag. athletes won medals they came home they obviously got rewards from both the olympic the international community and from the russian olympic committee but they will spend their lives knowing that they had won their medals not for their country but for a country which doesn't exist so essentially you know this this is a major blow to all athletes and particularly to clean athletes because you know when we talk about doping as a phenomenon for the world i mean it's not a