Canada is so far resisting calls from other countries to step up pressure to keep Russian and Belarusian athletes out of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
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Sports ministers from Poland and the Baltic countries Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia issued a joint statement Thursday urging a ban on those two countries from international sport and Olympic Games.Article content “The Canadian Olympic Committee continues to support the recommendation made by the IOC in February, 2022, that athletes and officials from Russia and Belarus should not be invited or allowed to participate in international competitions,” Shoemaker wrote.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants Russian athletes barred from Paris stating “any neutral flag of Russian athletes is stained with blood.”“It is extremely regretful to escalate this discussion with a threat of a boycott at this premature stage,” the IOC said Thursday. “As this situation evolves, the COC is committed to continuing to work with its athletes’ commission, membership and board of directors to shape our position and recommendations to the IOC,” Shoemaker said.
Russian athletes have competed as neutrals since the 2018 Winter Games because of a widespread doping scandal involving the host country in Sochi, Russia, in 2014.
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