2024 Olympics: Russian and Belarusian athletes “not welcome” in Paris, says Anne Hidalgo from kyiv. The mayor of Paris assured the Ukrainian athletes of her “very active, very strong” support.
The Russians, who will participate in the Olympics under a neutral banner, will not join the parade of national teams during the opening ceremony. Russia in return accused the IOC of “sloping into racism and neo-Nazism” and of being guilty of ‘discrimination’ and “intimidation”