European lawmakers urged the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday to exclude Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Paris Games rather than keep seeking ways to let them compete as neutrals in international sport. Know more:
The 46-nation Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe held a two-hour session in Strasbourg, France, of its panel for sports issues. It was to help draft a future report on the question of barring the two countries’ athletes and officials from the Olympic movement because of the military invasion of Ukraine.
The Council of Europe was created after World War II to advocate for freedom and protection of minorities. Opening the session Tuesday, PACE president Tiny Kox, a longtime senator in the Netherlands, acknowledged that for many people letting Russians compete at the Paris Olympics was a “totally unthinkable” prospect that could “serve propaganda purposes of the aggressor.”
“It is important for us that the athletes’ representatives’ views are given exposure,” the IOC said in a statement, noting also that the next pending decisions on athlete eligibility are for ASOIF members and their rules. against Russian athletes, and soccer’s FIFA won a Court of Arbitration for Sport appeal case to uphold its ban on Russian teams.
A UN-recognized human rights adviser often cited by the IOC and Bach, Alexandra Xanthaki, who has said exclusion from sport based on an athlete’s passport is discrimination, said in a filmed speech “blanket retribution actually undermines peace.” Frazer said the IOC had “limited focus” on traditional Russian funding from military and state-backed sports clubs, and there were likely loopholes to let contracts lapse before Paris then be renewed after.
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