The IOC has limited the participation of Russians in the Olympics: more than 40 will not be allowed

Olympic officials discuss the need for the presence of Russian athletes in Paris

The International Olympic Committee cannot decide exactly how many neutral athletes from Russia will come to the Olympic Games in Paris. It’s impossible not to let anyone in at all, but it’s scary to let anyone in – they might be accused of being loyal to our country. So IOC officials have to turn like snakes in a Parisian frying pan.

The International Olympic Committee cannot decide exactly how many neutral athletes from Russia will come to the Olympic Games in Paris. It’s impossible not to let anyone in at all, but it’s scary to let anyone in – they might be accused of being loyal to our country. So IOC officials have to turn like snakes in a Parisian frying pan.

The other day, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, disregarding all the principles of Olympic hospitality and the rules of selection for competitions established by the same International Olympic Committee, said that he doesn’t want to see Russians in his city at the Games at all.

Then the President of the fifth republic, Macron, wringing his hands, promised to personally appeal to the President of Russia with a request to establish an “Olympic truce” in the zone of the North Military District. True, he forgot to promise to do the same to the United States, which is bombing the Houthis, and to Israel. However, this is not surprising. After all, as Madame Hidalgo said, “Israel is a real democracy!”

In general, one gets the feeling that Western politicians, the Western media and Olympic officials who feed on them are simply afraid of the Russians coming to the Olympics. Even in a neutral status, even with white flags, as the International Paralympic Committee decided to give our Paralympians a white hoe instead of a banner. With some black hieroglyphs.

So Anglo-Saxon journalists are fighting in hysterics, torturing IOC officials – how many Russians will come to the Games? And they hum in response as best they can.

IOC Senior Vice President John Coates, an Australian business lawyer, told Sydney’s Daily Telegraph that he could not say with certainty how many Russian athletes would compete as neutrals at the Paris Games. Having said that, reports that there may be only 40 of them are close to reality. His reality.

“The problem is how many of them will be there because they won’t be playing any team sports,” Coates told Sydney’s Daily Telegraph on Sunday. After which he repeated once again most of the IOC criteria for the admission of Russians to the Olympic Games in Paris.

“Everyone who is trained in Russian military clubs will not go. I don’t know, but obviously some athletes may decide not to go if they don’t compete with Russian flags. I may be wrong, but I think I read something that said there might only be 40,” Coates added.

Let us remind you that at the moment there are no uniform recommendations from the Ministry of Sports regarding the participation of our athletes in the Paris Olympics, and each of the athletes and national federations decides for themselves whether or not to go to the games if there is an opportunity to qualify.

For its part, the International Paralympic Committee said that Russians will be prohibited from participating in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Paralympic Games, and the IOC will decide on this issue in the coming days.