IOC chief Thomas Bach: Governments will not decide who participates in the Olympics
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) takes human rights seriously and will not allow national governments to decide who can participate in international competitions and who cannot.
About it declared head of the organization Thomas Bach.
“It is not for governments to decide who can participate in sporting events. This would be the end of international sports competitions as we know them today,” he stressed.
Bach recalled that at the Australian Open, the Ukrainian tennis player played with a neutral player with a Russian passport. The tournament was won by a Belarusian athlete with a neutral status.
Thomas Bach stressed that the IOC shares the “sorrow and human suffering” of Ukrainian athletes and is trying to help them.
Statements of the head of the organization called the call of ministers of 35 countries of the world to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from participating in the 2024 Olympics.
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