2024-06-27 17:47:42
We all know extra concerning the Russian and Belarusian athletes who’re on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games (IOC) now permit 22 Russians and 17 Belarusians to take part underneath the impartial flag within the occasion. He expanded his checklist this Wednesday to tennis, taking pictures and driving.
The IOC, which printed on June 15 the primary checklist restricted to 4 classes (wrestling, weightlifting, biking and trampoline) additionally indicated that it had suffered its first rejections, which got here from the Russians two together with bicycle owner Aleksandr Vlasov and 5 Belarusians. In distinction, 18 athletes have already accepted the invitation. There are three equestrians, three trampoline specialists, two weightlifters and ten wrestlers. Two Belarusian pilots and two shooters haven’t but given their solutions.
Medvedev and Rublev referred to as
The identical suspension is in tennis the place Russians Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev have been invited, in addition to, for ladies, Belarusians Aryna Sabalenka and Victoria Azarenka and Russians Daria Kasatkina and Liudmila Samsonova.
To be invited to the Video games, “particular person athletes” have to beat the impediment of {qualifications} and double examine, by the worldwide organizations then the IOC, of the absence of lively assist for the conflict in Ukraine and of the hyperlink. with their nationwide military.
The Olympic physique should additionally replace its checklist, as and when the ultimate outcomes of the {qualifications} change into accessible. No athlete might be a part of it because the World Sports activities Council has maintained the entire exclusion of Russians and Belarusians, whereas some sports activities, similar to swimming, return them so long as their presence isn’t for certain.
Russians and Belarusians are barely smaller in Tokyo
Then it can come to see the response of the sports activities associations of Russia and Belarus: if Moscow lastly offers up in boycotting the Paris video games, its gymnasts all determine to refuse to take part, whereas the husbands and judo groups is, quite the opposite, prepared to ship athletes. .
The Olympic Middle, after the primary arrival of athletes from each nations from the world sport after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, organizes their gradual return, underneath a impartial flag, underneath strict situations and with out direct group occasions.
Final March, the IOC anticipated 36 Russians and 22 Belarusians on the Paris Video games “because the probably state of affairs”, and respectively 55 and 28 “on the most”, i.e. extra presence than throughout the Olympics Tokyo 2020: Russians are 330 and Belarusians 104.
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