The pressure is mounting to keep Russian athletes out of the Olympic Games until the war in Ukraine ends. nrarmour has the story.
“For as long as this war goes on, this Russian aggression on Ukraine, it’s not possible to parade as if nothing was happening, to have a delegation arriving in Paris, while bombs are raining on Ukraine,” Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said during an interview with France Info, a French radio station.Russia and Belarus were banned by the IOC last year after Russia invaded Ukraine without provocation.
Sure enough, the IOC said last month it wanted to explore ways to allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete under a neutral flag. The IOC says it is unfair to discriminate against the athletes because of their passports, though that’s exactly what the organization did when it banned South African athletes from 1964 to 1988 because of that country’s racist system of apartheid. The IOC also said it has no basis to continue the ban on athletes because there are no U.N.
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