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Russian athletes competing on the Paris Olympics as impartial particular person athletes shall be allowed to attend the closing ceremony on Sunday, officers stated.
Athletes from Russia weren’t allowed to attend the opening ceremony and haven’t been capable of signify their nation in Paris because of its ongoing conflict towards Ukraine.
“The IOC Executive Board has decided that the Individual Neutral Athletes (AINs) can participate at the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024,” the IOC stated in a press release, by way of Reuters.
Russia was barred from competing in Paris, as a result of it had invaded Ukraine simply 4 days after the tip of the 2022 Winter Olympics. The International Olympic Committee thought of this assault a violation of the Olympic truce — a decision that requires all nations to put down arms and never have interaction in battle, beginning one week earlier than the Olympics start and ending one week after the tip.
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A rocket is fired from the Russian military’s Grad rocket launchers at an undisclosed location in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service by way of AP)
The Russian Olympic Committee misplaced its attraction towards its suspension by the International Olympic Committee in February.
Belarus, which was used as a staging floor for the invasion, was additionally not allowed to compete in Paris, however any Belarusian athletes competing as neutrals may also be allowed to attend the closing ceremony.
A complete of 32 athletes from Russia and Belarus mixed competed in Paris – 17 beforehand represented Belarus, and solely 15 represented Russia. However, most of them returned house after their respective occasions ended.
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Belarusians Ivan Litvinovich and Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya grew to become the primary athletes from both of those international locations to win medals in Paris, each in trampoline. Litvinovich took gold within the males’s competitors, whereas Bardzilouskaya took girls’s silver. Russian girls’s tennis gamers Diana Shnaider and Mirra Andreeva grew to become the primary Russian athletes to win medals in Paris, taking silver in girls’s doubles final Sunday.
Silver Medallists Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider of Team Individual Neutral Athletes pose on the rostrum through the Tennis Women’s Doubles medal ceremony after the Tennis Women’s Doubles Gold medal match. (Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)
However, these medals will not be counted as a collective group within the total medals desk.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Olympic staff has additionally been dramatically affected by the Russian invasion.
More than 3,000 Ukrainian athletes and coaches have fought within the conflict, and practically 500 have died, in keeping with the Ukrainian Sports Ministry. This 12 months’s Olympic Games in Paris noticed solely 140 athletes from Ukraine, marking the nation’s smallest summer season Olympic delegation in historical past.
Gold Medalist Oleksandr Khyzhniak of Team Ukraine poses on the rostrum through the Boxing Men’s 80kg medal ceremony after the Boxing Men’s 80kg Final match on day twelve of the Paris Olympics. (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)
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Russia’s conflict towards Ukraine, which started on Feb. 24, 2022, simply days after the conclusion of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, has now gone on for 2 years, 5 months and two weeks.
A show with sports activities tools was arrange at Parliament Square in London to honor the 487 Ukrainian athletes killed since Russia’s invasion of the nation. Oleksandr Pielieshenko, who competed in weightlifting on the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and Kateryna Diachenko, an 11-year-old rhythmic gymnast killed in March 2022, have been amongst these remembered.
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