“Bach said that it turned out that he colluded with the Ukrainian side. According to him, he gave them the authority to collect information about Russian athletes, which will serve as the basis for refusing Russian athletes to participate in the Olympic Games. This is a pure conspiracy, only a conspiracy not of two individuals, but of the head of an international organization with one country to oust a third.
We believe it is now up to the IOC to investigate. Otherwise, the whole of Olympism will collapse before the eyes of humanity and then it will no longer be possible to recover it,” TASS quotes Zakharova, referring to her remarks on Sputnik radio.
On December 8, the IOC Executive Committee decided to admit athletes from the Russian Federation and Belarus to the 2024 Summer Olympic Games with individual neutral status and subject to a number of conditions. It should be noted that athletes from Russia and Belarus can participate in the Paris Games only in individual disciplines, while team sports competitions will be held without the participation of these countries.
The 2024 Olympic Games will be held in the French capital from July 26 to August 11, 2024. Interestingly, Russians and Belarusians are banned from participating in the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2024 Olympic Games.
Source: Sport
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