Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin says there should be no boycott of Russia at the Olympics this summer. IOC authorized Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in the Paris Games on the condition that they compete under a neutral banner.
Russia has repeatedly denounced these criteria which it considers “humiliating” and Russophobic. President Vladimir Putin estimated that the IOC risked “burying the Olympic movement” by imposing the neutral banner on Russian andBelarusian athletes..