Russia is nominally barred from the coming Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, because of its state-backed doping program and an elaborate cheating scheme carried out at the last Winter Games. But Russia announced on Thursday it would send a robust team of 169 athletes to the Games, where they will compete as individual “Olympic athletes from Russia.”

That number is not far off the size of the Russian teams at past Winter Olympics. Russia had 232 athletes at the Sochi Games in 2014, where it dominated the medal standings, and 177 in Vancouver in 2010.

The International Olympic Committee announced in December that Russian government officials would be forbidden to attend the 2018 Games, the nation’s flag would not be displayed and its anthem would not be played.

But Olympic officials also said that athletes from Russia could receive special dispensation to compete if they satisfied the scrutiny of an antidoping review panel.