{"id":2064799,"date":"2023-10-12T12:45:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-olympic-committee-handed-immediate-ban-says-ioc\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T12:47:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:47:06","slug":"russian-olympic-committee-handed-immediate-ban-says-ioc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-olympic-committee-handed-immediate-ban-says-ioc\/","title":{"rendered":"IOC announces immediate ban on Russian Olympic Committee."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussian-olympic-committee-handed-immediate-ban-says-ioc%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2064799&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__medium__1kbOh text__small__1kGq2 article-header__author__3PcB3\" data-testid=\"Text\"><span class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2\" data-testid=\"Text\">By <\/span>Sudipto Ganguly<\/div>\n<p><time class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__extra_small__1Mw6v body__base__22dCE body__extra_small_body__3QTYe article-header__dateline__4jE04\" data-testid=\"Body\"><span class=\"date-line__date__23Ge-\">October\u200d 12, 2023<\/span><span class=\"date-line__date__23Ge-\">7:54 AM PDT<\/span><\/time><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">International Olympic\u200c Committee President Thomas Bach speaks during an Executive Board Meeting, ahead of the 141st IOC Session, in Mumbai, India, October\u2064 12, 2023. REUTERS\/Niharika Kulkarni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MUMBAI, Oct 12 (Reuters) \u2013 The Russian Olympic Committee was banned with immediate effect on Thursday for recognizing regional organizations from four territories \u2063annexed from Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-2\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-2'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The IOC added the ROC\u2062 would\u2064 not be eligible for any funding after it\u2064 recognized earlier this month Olympic Councils from the regions of \u200bLuhansk, Donetsk, \u200cKherson and Zaporizhzhia but that it would not affect any Russian athletes competing as neutrals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe unilateral decision taken by the Russian Olympic Committee \u200don 5 October 2023 to include, as its members, the regional\u200b sports organizations which\u2063 are \u2063under the\u2062 authority\u200d of \u2063the National Olympic Committee\u2064 (NOC) of Ukraine (namely Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia) constitutes a breach of the Olympic \u200cCharter,\u201d<\/strong> the IOC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c\u2026 it violates the territorial integrity of the NOC of Ukraine, \u200bas \u2062recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in accordance with\u2064 the Olympic Charter.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The IOC executive board is meeting in Mumbai ahead of the IOC session on Oct. 15-17.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s ruling does\u200c not affect any decision on\u2062 Russian and Belarusian athletes\u2019 participation at the Paris 2024 Olympics which the IOC will take at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspension of the\u200b ROC does not affect the participation \u2064of independent athletes,\u201d IOC spokesman Mark Adams told a press\u2064 conference.<\/p>\n<p>While Ukraine welcomed \u2064the move, the\u200b Russian Olympic Committee called it counter-productive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis \u2062is an important decision,\u201d Andriy Yermak, Head of Ukraine\u2019s Presidential Office, said\u200b on the Telegram messaging app.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe communicate with our partners that sports cannot be out of politics when a terrorist country\u200d commits \u200cgenocide of Ukraine and uses athletes as propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ROC said it was a politically motivated decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday the IOC made another counterproductive decision with obvious political motivations,\u201d the ROC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis \u200csecures \u2063de jure what was done de facto back in February 2022,\u201d it added, referring\u200c to the ban\u2062 on Russian athletes issued \u200cby most\u200d international sports\u200c federations in the\u200c wake of Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC had \u200bnot sanctioned the Russian or Belarusian Olympic Committee\u200c or Russian IOC members since Moscow\u2019s 2022 invasion \u200cbut did ban\u2063 athletes from those countries in the\u2062 first few months after what Moscow calls a \u2018special military operation\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In March, however, the IOC issued a first set of recommendations for international sports federations to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to return,\u200d competing as\u2064 individual \u2062athletes with no flag, emblem or anthem.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC has said athletes should not be punished for actions of governments.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly and Karolos Grohmann; Additional reporting \u200dby Gabrielle Tetrault-Farber and Yuliia Dysa in Gdansk; \u200bWriting by Karolos Grohmann; Editing by\u200b Ken Ferris<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>The State Department confirms the American Death Toll in Israel, IAF continues to put pressure on Hamas and Scalise edges out Jordan for House Speaker.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>As Israel remains under attack by Hamas terrorists, many people don\u2019t understand \u2062the history of\u2062 the \u2062tension.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Israel expected to launch ground assault:\u200b \u201cWhat will\u200c Joe \u200bBiden say two weeks from \u200bnow \u200cwhen the death tolls \u2062inside Gaza are growing and people are\u2064 calling Israel\u2019s actions a humanitarian crisis a violation of international\u2062 law?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>With wide-open borders, \u200dthe \u2062CBP (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) has flagged more than 73,000 illegals as \u201cSpecial Interest Aliens\u201d who may \u2064have\u200b ties to terrorist groups.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Internet companies\u200c Google, Amazon \u2063and Cloudflare say they have weathered the internet\u2019s largest-known denial of service attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Samsung\u200b said its\u200c preliminary third-quarter profit dropped by a smaller-than-expected 78%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>The EU\u2019s industry chief gave Meta 24 hours to inform him of measures taken \u200bto counter \u200bthe spread of disinformation on its platforms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>EU antitrust regulators are asking Microsoft\u2019s users\u2062 and rivals whether Bing should comply with new tough tech rules.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> \u200dHow does the ban on the Russian Olympic Committee affect Russian athletes participating in international competitions?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Title: Russian \u2064Olympic Committee Banned by IOC for Recognizing\u200d Annexed Territories<\/p>\n<p>Introduction:<\/p>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on October 12, 2023,\u200d that it has banned the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) with immediate effect. The ban comes as\u2063 a result of the\u2064 ROC&#8217;s recognition of regional organizations from four territories annexed\u200b from Ukraine. While the ban will prohibit the ROC from receiving any funding, it will not affect Russian athletes competing as neutrals. This\u2064 decision by the\u200d ROC has been deemed a\u2062 breach of the Olympic Charter and a violation of the territorial integrity of the National Olympic\u200b Committee (NOC) of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Background:<\/p>\n<p>The IOC executive board meeting, held in Mumbai ahead of the\u200b upcoming IOC session on October 15-17, discussed the matter extensively. The ruling, however, will not impact any decisions concerning the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes at \u200cthe Paris 2024 Olympics, which will be \u200ddetermined at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>IOC&#8217;s Statement and Response:<\/p>\n<p>In its official statement, the IOC\u200c expressed disappointment\u2063 with the ROC&#8217;s unilateral decision to include regional sports organizations under the authority of the NOC of Ukraine. The IOC emphasized\u200b that this move violated the territorial integrity of\u200d the NOC of Ukraine, as recognized by the \u200dIOC. The committee described the ROC&#8217;s decision as a breach of the Olympic Charter.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s Reaction:<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine welcomed the IOC&#8217;s decision, with Andriy Yermak, Head of Ukraine&#8217;s Presidential Office, stating that sports cannot\u200b be divorced from politics. Yermak\u2062 highlighted that Ukraine \u200cis currently facing \u2063a challenging\u200c situation \u2064involving a country he\u2064 referred to as \u2063a &#8220;terrorist\u200b country&#8221; committing genocide. \u2064He further claimed that such actions are\u200b part of a propaganda campaign.<\/p>\n<p>ROC&#8217;s Response:<\/p>\n<p>In response to the ban, the\u2062 ROC condemned the decision as politically motivated. The committee\u2064 stated that the IOC&#8217;s ruling mirrored what had \u2064already taken place after the ban on Russian athletes imposed \u2064by most international sports federations following Moscow&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The ROC believes that the ban merely \u2062formalizes a previous de facto situation.<\/p>\n<p>IOC&#8217;s Stance on Athletes and Governments:<\/p>\n<p>The \u200cIOC has consistently maintained\u200c that athletes should not be penalized for the actions\u200d of their respective governments. Therefore, despite the suspension of the\u2064 ROC, independent Russian athletes will still be able to participate\u2063 in international competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion:<\/p>\n<p>The IOC&#8217;s decision to prohibit the ROC from participating in global Olympic events due to its recognition of annexed territories represents a significant escalation in the ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine. While the ban hinders the ROC&#8217;s access to funding, it is important \u200cto \u2064note that individual \u2064athletes will not \u2062be affected. As the\u200b situation continues to develop,\u2064 further decisions \u2063regarding Russian and Belarusian athletes&#8217; involvement in the Paris 2024 Olympics will be made by the IOC.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russian-olympic-committee-handed-immediate-ban-says-ioc\/\" title=\"IOC announces immediate ban on Russian Olympic Committee.\">article includes information sourced<\/a> from Reuters and may have been\u200b edited \u2064for conciseness and clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Olympic Committee was swiftly banned on Thursday for acknowledging regional organizations from four countries. International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach addressed the issue during an Executive Board Meeting in Mumbai, India. The ban was implemented during the 141st IOC Session. 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