Showed "courage": IOC has admitted Russians and Belarus to the 2024 Olympics (video)

The IOC predicts that the selection for the 2024 Olympics will take place 36 Russians and 22 Belarus. These numbers are 10 times less than the number of citizens of the Russian Federation and Belarus who participated in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. In the Olympic Games, 2024 will be allowed to participate in athletes and athletes who are citizens of the Russian Federation and Belarus. 19 representatives of aggressors will be able to compete with representatives of other countries.

In doing so, they will come out under a neutral flag, accompanied by a neutral melody created for this purpose. Representatives of the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced their decision on Russians and Belarusians. The main theses on the 2024 Olympiad were voiced by two speakers-Director of the Department of Relations with the National Olympic Committees of the IOC James Macleod (James Macleod) and Sports Director of the IOC KIT McConnell (Kit McConnell).

The IOC Executive Committee decided that as of March 19, 19 athletes would be under the neutral flag: these persons were qualified for participation in the Olympic Games, sports functionaries explained. The number will increase because, "according to the most probable scenario", the selection will be totaling 36 Russians and 22 Belarusians.

However, in the IOC "reassured": they stated that the number of citizens of the Russian Federation is unlikely to reach a quota of 58 people, and citizens of Belarus - quotas in 28 people. They also reminded that they would still be much smaller than at the Tokyo Olympics: then the Russians were 330 people, Belarusians - 104 people.

"Today the IOC executive committee received updated information that there are now 12 individual neutral athletes with Russian passport and 7 with a Belarusian passport have been qualified at OI-2024 of 6000 quotas that have already been allocated for the Olympic Games. It is important that these estimates are not take into account the process of verifying the power of the IOC, which will determine the final participation.

" It should be noted that IOC representatives did not name the names of Russians and Belarusians who will participate in the 2024 Olympics. On the site of the sports committee you can find information about "change of sports citizenship". Seven athletes have affected the changes, two of them are citizens of the Russian Federation: also in the account X (Twitter) IOC can see a neutral flag and hear music that will accompany the exit of "neutral" athletes.

Olympic Games 2024 - Sports Tournament, which will take place from July 26 to August 11, 2024 in Paris. The Olympians will compete in 32 sports, 28 of them are classic, and four will be new. New sports are breakdown, sports climbing, skateboarding and surfing. MOC Thomas Bach President in a comment to the French edition of Le Monde said that the Russian government responds too aggressively about the future event.

Western sports functionaries also mentioned competitions that are prepared in the Russian Federation - "Summer Games of Friendship" (September 2024) in Moscow. The Kremlin's similar actions were called "sports politicization". We would like to remind you that French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with the Ukrainian media that he would like to cease fire for the period of the Olympic Games. Earlier, the politician reported that Europeans could agree to send their units to Ukraine.