Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Russian aggression in Ukraine has also had an impact on the Special Olympics, which holds quadrennial summer and winter games. The most recent winter games had been set for Kazan, Russia, but were ...
Russians competed under the name “Olympic Athlete from Russia” at the 2018 Winter Olympics and as ROC — short for Russian Olympic Committee — in 2021 and 2022, without their country's ...
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 ...
The IOC will not recognize Russia at the Summer Olympics in Paris over the continued war in Ukraine. ... have been invited to compete at the 2024 Olympics as “Individual Neutral Athletes”; and ...
At the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo (postponed to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic) and the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Russian athletes competed under the name of the Russian Olympic Committee ...
The Russian Olympic Committee has lost an appeal against its suspension by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC objected to the ROC incorporating four sports bodies representing regions of ...
At the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 the Russian Olympic team had 330 athletes and the Belarus delegation 104. The Russian team was limited then due to doping violations.