Ukraine hopes to secure widespread international support for banning Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Paris Olympics due to Moscow's invasion, the sports minister said.
The Olympic Rings are displayed next to the L'Art statue by Laurent Marqueste at the Hotel De Ville in Paris, the city that will host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, on September 2, 2022. Behrouz Mehri/ AFP
"This is unacceptable for us," Sports Minister and former Olympic champion Vadym Huttsait told Reuters at his offices in Kyiv, beside a wall with portraits of athletes killed in the war launched by Moscow a year ago with assistance from Belarus. At least 220 Ukrainian athletes and coaches have died in the war, Huttsait said, with over 340 sports facilities damaged or ruined.
Russia says its "special military operation" in Ukraine is to protect its own security, denies accusations of atrocities, and says any push to squeeze it out of global sport will fail. "Maybe in the future Olympic Games as well, of course, we welcome it entirely," he added, while cautioning against what he said were "additional conditions" imposed on Russian athletes.The IOC's previous recommendation to ban Russians and Belarusians has been applied by many sports federations.
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