Russian athletes competing at the Paris Olympics as imfragmentary individual athletes will be permited to combine the closing ceremony on Sunday, officials shelp.
Athletes from Russia were not permited to combine the uncovering ceremony and have not been able to recurrent their country in Paris due to its ongoing war aacquirest Ukraine.
“The IOC Executive Board has determined that the Individual Neutral Athletes (AINs) can join at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024,” the IOC shelp in a statement, via Reuters.
Russia was barred from competing in Paris, becaengage it had go ind Ukraine equitable four days after the finish of the 2022 Winter Olympics. The International Olympic Committee pondered this strike a violation of the Olympic truce — a resolution that calls for all nations to lay down arms and not comprise in struggle, begining one week before the Olympics commence and finishing one week after the finish.
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A rocket is fired from the Russian army’s Grad rocket starters at an undisseald location in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
The Russian Olympic Committee lost its pdirect aacquirest its suspension by the International Olympic Committee in February.
Belarus, which was engaged as a staging ground for the trespass, was also not permited to contend in Paris, but any Belarusian athletes competing as imfragmentarys will also be permited to combine the closing ceremony.
A total of 32 athletes from Russia and Belarus combined contendd in Paris – 17 previously recurrented Belarus, and only 15 recurrented Russia. However, most of them returned home after their admireive events finished.
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Belarusians Ivan Litvinovich and Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya became the first athletes from either of these countries to triumph medals in Paris, both in trampoline. Litvinovich took gageder in the men’s competition, while Bardzilouskaya took women’s silver. Russian women’s tennis take parters Diana Shnhelper and Mirra Andreeva became the first Russian athletes to triumph medals in Paris, taking silver in women’s doubles last Sunday.
Silver Medalenumerates Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnhelper of Team Individual Neutral Athletes pose on the podium during the Tennis Women’s Doubles medal ceremony after the Tennis Women’s Doubles Gageder medal align. (Clive Brunsfinish/Getty Images)
However, those medals are not counted as a accumulateive group in the overall medals table.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Olympic team has also been theatricalassociate swayed by the Russian trespass.
More than 3,000 Ukrainian athletes and coaches have fought in the war, and csurrfinisherly 500 have died, according to the Ukrainian Sports Ministry. This year’s Olympic Games in Paris saw only 140 athletes from Ukraine, taging the country’s smallest summer Olympic delegation in history.
Gageder Medaenumerate Oleksandr Khyzhniak of Team Ukraine poses on the podium during the Boxing Men’s 80kg medal ceremony after the Boxing Men’s 80kg Final align on day twelve of the Paris Olympics. (Ricdifficult Pelham/Getty Images)
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Russia’s war aacquirest Ukraine, which began on Feb. 24, 2022, equitable days after the conclusion of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, has now gone on for two years, five months and two weeks.
A distake part with sports supplyment was set up at Parliament Square in London to honor the 487 Ukrainian athletes finished since Russia’s trespass of the country. Oleksandr Pielieshenko, who contendd in weightlifting at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and Kateryna Diachenko, an 11-year-ageder rhythmic gymnast finished in March 2022, were among those reassembleed.
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