{"id":2119614,"date":"2023-12-08T10:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russians-belarusians-to-participate-at-paris-olympics-as-neutrals-ioc\/"},"modified":"2023-12-08T11:00:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T16:00:29","slug":"russians-belarusians-to-participate-at-paris-olympics-as-neutrals-ioc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russians-belarusians-to-participate-at-paris-olympics-as-neutrals-ioc\/","title":{"rendered":"Russians and Belarusians to compete as neutrals at Paris Olympics &#8211; IOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Frussians-belarusians-to-participate-at-paris-olympics-as-neutrals-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=2119614&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<p><strong>December 8,\u200c 2023 \u2013 7:25 AM PST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BERLIN (Reuters) \u2013 Russians and Belarusians who qualify in their sport for the Paris 2024 Olympics \u200ccan take part as \u2062neutrals without flags,\u200b emblems or\u200b anthems at the event \u200cnext\u2064 year, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Friday.<\/strong><\/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>\n<p>The athletes had initially been banned from \u200dcompeting internationally following Russia\u2019s\u200d invasion of Ukraine last year.<\/p>\n<p>In March,\u200d however, the IOC \u200dissued a\u2063 first set of\u2063 recommendations for international sports federations to allow Russian and Belarusian competitors to return and they have since done so in \u200dmost events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Executive Board (EB) of the IOC has decided that Individual Neutral Athletes (AINs) who have qualified through the existing qualification systems of the International Federations (IFs) on the field of play will\u2064 be\u200d declared eligible\u2062 to \u2063compete at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 in\u2064 accordance with the conditions outlined below,\u201d the Olympic body said in a statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIndividual \u200bNeutral Athletes are athletes\u200d with a Russian or Belarusian passport.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The neutral athletes from Russia and Belarus will only compete in individual sports and no teams for the two countries will be\u2063 allowed to participate in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC, which in October suspended \u200bthe Russian Olympic Committee for\u200c <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.\">recognizing regional organizations<\/a> from four territories annexed from Ukraine, also said athletes who actively support the war in \u2063Ukraine would not be eligible.<\/p>\n<p>It also said no Russian or Belarusian\u200d government or state official would be invited to or accredited for Paris 2024.<\/p>\n<p>But athletes, it added, should not be punished\u200b for the \u2064actions of their governments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe protection of the\u2062 rights of individual \u2064athletes to participate in competitions\u2064 despite the suspension of their National \u200bOlympic Committee is a well-established\u200b practice, respecting human rights,\u201d the IOC said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has opposed the presence \u2062of Russian competitors, even as neutrals, at the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Out \u200dof 4,600 athletes globally who \u200chave qualified \u200cfor the Paris Games so far, eight \u200dare Russians and three hold Belarusian passports.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 Ukrainians had \u200bqualified. A total of about \u206411,000 competitors will take part\u2062 at the Games next year.<\/p>\n<p>Athletics, the Games\u2019\u200d biggest sport, already had a\u200b long-standing ban on the Russian Athletics Federation due to the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-already-banned-from-olympics-for-doping-caught-doping-again\/\" title=\"Russia, Already \u2018Banned\u2019 from Olympics for Doping, Caught Doping Again\">state-sponsored doping<\/a>\u2063 regime, but it did allow a\u2063 number of Russian athletes \u2062to compete\u2063 as \u2064neutrals if they \u200ccould prove a doping-free background.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u200b that option was also removed after the Ukraine \u2062invasion, \u2063with all Russians and Belarusians\u200c banned \u2013 a decision that was upheld \u2063by \u2062this year\u2019s Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>World Athletics \u2062president Sebastian Coe said that \u201call athletes, coaching staff, personnel and the whole entourage\u2062 \u2013 to use an IOC expression\u200c \u2013 are excluded from World Athletics series of events\u2062 for the \u2064foreseeable future because of the Ukraine situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coe said it would have been \u201cinconceivable\u201d for Russians and Belarusians\u200d to have competed in this year\u2019s World Championships in Budapest and, speaking about the issues faced by Ukrainian\u200d athletes,\u2063 said in August that\u2064 \u201cit is an intolerable situation\u200c and that\u2019s why I won\u2019t be changing my views anytime soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><sup>Reporting by Karolos Grohmann; additional reporting by Mitch Phillips Editing by \u2063Andrew Cawthorne and Toby Davis<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t<strong>Share\u2063 this post!<\/strong>\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Trump is ever defiant in his New York civil case, the House moves to\u200b censure Jamaal Bowman and OAN wishes you a Happy Hanukkah.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>OAN Host,\u2064 Dan Ball sits down Face to Face with President Donald J Trump at his private residence, Mar-A-Lago to discuss the most pressing issues of the day, impacting all Americans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Chairman of \u2064the House Oversight Committee \u2063James \u200dComer says Hunter Biden will face severe consequences if\u2063 he does not appear for\u2062 a closed\u200b door deposition next week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>The Biden Re-Election Campaign appears to be going into overdrive\u200d as it tries \u2064to \u2063rebuild its base heading\u200d into 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Alphabet shares\u2063 ended 5.3% higher on Thursday\u2062 as Wall Street cheered the launch of Gemini.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Meta Platforms will add\u200d invisible watermarking to its text-to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meta-to-introduce-watermarking-feature-for-some-ai-products\/\" title=\"Meta is adding a watermarking feature to certain AI products\">-image generation product imagine<\/a> with Meta AI chatbot in the coming \u200cweeks to enhance \u200btransparency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Alphabet introduced its most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-to-resign-from-congress-at-the-end-of-the-year\/\" title=\"McCarthy to leave Congress by year-end\">advanced artificial intelligence model capable<\/a> of crunching different forms of\u200b information such as video, audio and text.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps\u2019 \u200bpush notifications.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> What is the reason behind the IOC&#8217;s decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals at \u2063the Paris 2024 Olympics?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Title: Russian and Belarusian Athletes Allowed to Compete as Neutrals at Paris 2024 Olympics<\/p>\n<p>Date: December 8,\u200c 2023 \u2013 7:25 AM PST<\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Introduction:<\/p>\n<p>The International \u200cOlympic Committee (IOC) \u2062has announced that \u200bRussian \u2064and Belarusian athletes who qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics will be permitted to participate as neutrals, without displaying national flags, emblems, or anthems. This decision comes after the athletes were initially banned from competing \u200cinternationally due to Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine. The IOC&#8217;s decision demonstrates their commitment to\u2063 protect the rights of individual athletes\u2062 while maintaining the integrity of the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Background:<\/p>\n<p>Following Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine last year, Russian and Belarusian athletes were barred from competing in international events. However, in \u200dMarch of this year, the IOC issued a set of recommendations enabling\u200c these athletes to \u2064return to competition, which most international sports federations have since implemented.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions for Eligibility:<\/p>\n<p>The IOC&#8217;s Executive\u2064 Board has outlined\u200c the conditions under which Individual Neutral Athletes (AINs) can compete at the Olympic Games Paris 2024. AINs who have qualified through the existing qualification systems\u200c of the International Federations (IFs) will be\u2062 declared eligible to participate. It \u2064is important\u2063 to note that AINs are athletes holding Russian or Belarusian passports.<\/p>\n<p>Restrictions and Exclusions:<\/p>\n<p>Only \u200cindividual athletes from Russia and Belarus will be allowed to compete in Paris \u200c2024; no teams representing these countries will\u2064 participate. \u2062Additionally, athletes\u200b who actively support the war in Ukraine will be deemed ineligible. The IOC has\u2062 stated that no Russian or Belarusian government or state officials \u200bwill be invited or accredited\u2063 for the Games. However, the IOC emphasizes that athletes should not be penalized for the actions of their governments, as \u2063the protection of athletes&#8217; rights and human \u200brights is of\u2063 utmost importance.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s Opposition:<\/p>\n<p>The presence of Russian competitors, even as neutrals, at the \u2062Paris Olympics has been opposed\u2062 by Ukraine. Despite this opposition, eight Russian and three Belarusian athletes have qualified for \u200cthe \u2064Games\u200d so far, while more than 60 Ukrainians have\u200b qualified out of the 4,600 athletes\u200d globally. The Games \u2062will host a total of approximately 11,000 competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Impact on Athletics:<\/p>\n<p>Russian athletics have already faced a longstanding ban from World Athletics due to state-sponsored doping. However, a number of Russian athletes were\u2063 previously allowed \u2064to compete as neutrals if they could prove a doping-free background. After the Ukraine invasion, this option was \u200balso removed, resulting \u200cin\u200c the banning of\u2062 all Russian and Belarusian athletes from World Athletics events.<\/p>\n<p>Conclusion:<\/p>\n<p>The IOC&#8217;s decision to permit\u200c Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate as \u2064neutrals at the Paris 2024 Olympics reflects their commitment to protecting\u200b individual athletes&#8217; rights while upholding the principles of fair play and integrity. While Ukraine \u200bhas expressed opposition to their participation, \u200bthe IOC \u200bemphasizes that athletes should not be held responsible for political conflicts. As the Games \u2064approach, it is crucial to focus on supporting and celebrating\u2062 the achievements of athletes from around the world, fostering unity and inclusivity in the spirit of the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Karolos\u200d Grohmann; \u200dadditional reporting by \u200cMitch Phillips Editing by Andrew Cawthorne and Toby Davis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 8, 2023 \u2013 7:25 AM PST BERLIN (Reuters) \u2013 The IOC announced that Russians and Belarusians who qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympics can participate as neutrals, without flags, emblems, or anthems. 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