PARIS – Ukrainian athletes’ human rights have been ignored by IOC president Thomas Bach and a UN expert in weighing Russia and Belarus’s readmission into global sports events, a leading authority on human rights says.
Patricia Wiater said “unfortunately” neither the International Olympic Committee (IOC) nor UN special rapporteur in cultural rights Alexandra Xanthaki had addressed protecting the rights of Ukraine’s athletes.
Wiater was behind the German Olympic Sports Confederation’s legal opinion justifying the ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes from international…
