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As a result of an ongoing doping scandal and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia has been excluded from almost every sporting competition, and Russian athletes have been unable to use their national symbols at international sporting events, which also includes the Olympics, which have only allowed Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete at the 2024 summer Olympics as Individual ...
Individual Neutral Athletes [a] was the name used to represent approved individual Russian and Belarusian athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics, after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) banned those nations' previous designations due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 that continued into the duration of the games.
The Russian athletes taking part at this month's Beijing Olympics will be competing without their flag and national anthem because of doping sanctions. Here is why sanctions were imposed on ...
The Russian athletes participating in this year's Summer Games are considered "neutrals"
And so Russia, who is technically barred from the Games, will have official representation at Beijing's showpiece event, the Feb. 4 Opening Ceremony, while the U.S., whose anti-doping officials ...
The BRICS Games were used by Russian athletes as an alternative to participation in the 2024 Summer Olympics, where the country is not allowed to attend by decision of the International Olympic Committee (with the exception of a small number of individual athletes in non-team disciplines) due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and various ...
Russia, in turn, decrying “discrimination” (or worse), turned on the Olympics. Even many athletes who were eligible declined invitations. Even many athletes who were eligible declined invitations.
That same week, the IOC also released a lengthy statement denouncing Russia’s “Friendship Games,” an international sports competition organized to rival the Olympics, which, at the time, was ...