Just over 500 days before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (July 26-August 11), the subject of the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes is hotly topical.
Ukraine, through the voice of its president Volodymyr Zelensky, is trying to build a hostile front and is brandishing the threat of a boycott of the planetary gathering.
A posture that divides.
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In Tokyo in 2021 (Summer Olympics) and in Beijing (Winter Olympics) in 2022, Russian athletes accompanied by the acronym “ROC” (for Russian Olympic Committee) marched under a neutral banner and without an anthem following the sanctions that hit Russia after the workings of a state doping system developed from 2001 to 2015 were revealed.
After the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the International Olympic Committee, as of February 28, 2022, recommended to international federations and organizers of sporting events "not to invite
or allow the participation of athletes and representatives Russian and Belarusian officials at…
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