Follow usSport’s governing bodies have gathered at a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the potential participation of Russian players at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
The regular meeting comes two months after the IOC issued a detailed advice as to how sport athletes from Russian and Belarus should be treated. individually. If they were to return to sporting events they should be treated as neutrals.
The Committee back in March also advised that some Russian and Belarusian athletes could return to individual, but not team sport, on condition that the had not actively supported the war in Ukraine and are not contracted to “military or national security agencies”.
“You are doing so against the backdrop of the many traditional, I may say, naysayers who want to make people believe that it would never work,” IOC president Thomas Bach said.
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