LAUSANNE – The International Olympic Committee, ignoring calls from Ukraine to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from next year’s Paris Summer Olympics, said Wednesday that a pathway for their athletes’ participation should be “further explored”.
While most international federations followed the IOC’s recommendation in February to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the question is already being asked over their participation at the 2024 Games.
The IOC has previously described the issue as a “big dilemma” that had been politicised by individual governments intervening to block them.
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