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MOSCOW, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Russian Sports Minister Oleg Matytsin said on Saturday that ministers from more than 30 countries Russia and calls to ban Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Olympics are unacceptable, TASS news agency.
Lithuania’s sports minister deepened uncertainty over the Paris Games on Friday USAa group of 35 countries including Germany and Australia Russia and will demand that Belarusian athletes be excluded from the 2024 Olympics.
The move increases pressure on the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which is desperate not to tear apart the sport as a result of the conflict in Ukraine.
“This is a direct intervention of ministers in the activities of independent international sports organizations, an attempt to dictate the conditions for athletes’ participation in international competitions, which is absolutely unacceptable,” Matytsin quoted from TASS.
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IOC Russia and opened the door for Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals.
He said that the boycott would violate the Olympic Charter and include Russians and Belarusians UNsaid that it was based on the resolution adopted against discrimination in the Olympic movement.
“Now we break the unity of international sports and the international Olympic movement, sports political we see an undisguised desire to turn it into a means of pressure for solving issues,” Matytsin quoted.
RIA Novosti news The agency also said that Matytsin called Polish Sports Minister Kamil Bortniczuk’s proposal to form a refugee team of Russian and Belarusian dissidents “humiliating”.
Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin Editing by Mark Potter
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2023-02-11 16:42:56
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