PARIS - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has left unchanged the list of Russian athletes eligible to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics, which begin next week in the French capital Paris.
The list of athletes representing all national teams was published earlier in the day on the Paris-2024 Organising Committee website.
The Russian team includes Daniil Medvedev, Pavel Kotov, Roman Safiullin, Ekaterina Alexandrova, Mirra Andreeva, Diana Shnider, Elena Vesnina; canoeists Zakhar Petrov, Alexey Korovashkov, Olesya Romasenko; swimmer Evgeny Somov; cyclists Tamara Dronova, Alyona Ivanchenkova, Gleb Syritsa; and Anzhela Bladtseva, who competes in the trampoline event.
The Paris-2024 Organising Committee has also published the list of 16 Belarusian athletes who will take part in the upcoming Olympic Games. Athletes from Russia and Belarus have been allowed to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics under neutral status.
IOC Regulation against Russia
The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) met at the Olympic House in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 19 and 20 March and, after an opening day, decided to ban athletes from Russia and Belarus from participating in the Parade of Athletes and also to exclude them from the overall medal tally for the 2024 Olympics.
However, the IOC has decided that Russian athletes who are allowed to participate in the upcoming Olympics will not have to sign anything condemning their country's special military operation in Ukraine.
On 12 October 2023, the IOC suspended the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) until further notice after the Russian organisation included the Olympic Councils of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions among its members.
The Swiss-based CAS registered the ROC's appeal against the IOC's decision to suspend Russia's Olympic governing body on 6 November 2023.
The suspension means that the ROC cannot act as a National Olympic Committee or receive funding from the Olympic Movement. However, the IOC has reserved the right to allow Russian athletes to participate as neutrals in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Later, IOC President Thomas Bach said Russian athletes should have no ties to the ROC if they want to compete at the Olympics.
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