The International Olympic Committee is exploring ways to loosen its bans on athletes from Russia and Belarus, which would allow them to participate in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, most likely as independent competitors.
barring Russia and Belarus from hosting international sports competitions, prohibiting their flags or colors to be displayed at events and urging all Olympic sports organizations to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes. But as the war has dragged on, IOC President Thomas Bach increasingly has expressed concern that the bans are unfairly punishing athletes who have nothing to do with the war.
A decision will have to be made soon because many qualifying events for Paris will begin in spring 2023.Susanne Lyons, chair of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee board, who also attended the summit, said on a Monday media call that she supports studying ways for Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete at the Paris Olympics but only if they are clearly “neutral” and not affiliated in any way with their countries.
In recent months, Bach has expressed discomfort with the bans on athletes from Russia and Belarus, saying they were put in place — not for Russia’s invasion — but because some countries immediately barred Russian athletes from competitions and the IOC does not want governments to make political decisions about sports eligibility.“The qualification for sports events must be on sporting merits, not on political interference,” he said last week.
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