2022 Olympic medalist biathlete Irina Kazakevich said that it has a positive attitude towards the admission of Russians and Belarusians to the Summer Games in Paris, but due to the criteria, this news can hardly be called good.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on December 8 that it would allow Russian and Belarusian athletes who successfully qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics to have individual neutral status. In Paris, Russian and Belarusian athletes can only compete without a flag, anthem and other national symbols. The IOC banned the participation of athletes associated with security forces or who have expressed support for the CBO.
— I read that summer athletes were admitted in a neutral status, but with certain criteria, I didn’t really look into it. At first the news is positive, because we have been admitted, but, again, you have to study the criteria, so it is difficult to assess whether it is good news.
—Didn’t the team discuss it?
“We didn’t discuss it in the team, we only spoke with Tamara Derbusheva and Kirill Bazhin, since we were discussing this news at the same time. The reaction was: ‘Well, at least one solution,’ but nothing more,” Kazakevich told .
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