PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — They wave huge “Red Machine” banners. They paint the country’s tricolor flag on their faces or stencil it in their hair. They cheer in clusters, wearing matching shirts and scarves, chanting “Roo-see-yaa!” in unison.

Swarms of Russian supporters have descended on the Pyeongchang Games, offering an emphatic answer to anyone who wondered if they were embarrassed or cowed by doping allegations that have kept scores of their athletes out of the Games.

Nyet. Nyet. A thousand times, nyet.

“Our athletes, they are like any other athletes,” said Viacheslav Shkarin, a resident of Vladivostok, Russia, who was wearing a tall, furry white hat called a papakha on Sunday night at the Alpensia Biathlon Centre. “We think what has happened here is very unfair. We’re angry.”

They are also disappointed by the performance of Russian athletes, who had yet to win a single gold medal entering Wednesday’s events. Eleven days into the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Russia had won five gold medals and 18 over all. Through Tuesday, Russian athletes in South Korea had zero gold medals and 11 over all.