The IOC is steering a careful course through the choppy world of geopolitics a year before the next Olympic Games in Paris.
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The compromise has offended both Russia and Ukraine. In a statement on the IOC website, it reports the Russian Olympic Committee called its criteria for the return of Russians to international competition “absolutely unacceptable.” It said it was a “farce … which grossly violated basic principles of the Olympic Charter and the UN Charter.”Article content
“The Russian side wants the IOC to ignore the war. The Ukrainian side wants the IOC to totally isolate anyone with a Russian and Belarusian passport. Both positions are diametrically opposed to the IOC’s mission and the Olympic Charter,” says the IOC statement.We apologize, but this video has failed to load.Most Western countries, including Canada, oppose Russia and Belarus competing as nations.
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