She is International Olympic Committee (IOC) raised Wednesday because of Cortine Winter Games D’Mpezzo .
The sports director of IOC, McConnell KitHe set this position at the press conference offered at the end of the Executive Committee meeting of this organization held in Lausana (Switzerland) where the Los Angeles 2028 sports sports program was approved.
In March 2023, the highest Olympic organism recommended participating in contests with individual Russian and Belarusian -individual athletes – sports sports are excluded – under the neutral flag as a proposal by attacking Ukraine in February 2022.
According to McConnell, the IOC will maintain the criteria applied to Paris and this should dominate the Olympic event next year, which will take place from February 6 to 22 in the cities of Milan and Cortina D’Mirezzo.
“This is a basic principle that we support firmly. Athletes should not be punished for the actions of their governments. Our position remains clear and consistent with the principles of 2023, “said the COI manager.
The agency from June 23 will lead the Zimbabuense Kirsty Coventry instead of German Thomas Bach in contact with sports sports federations to explain the Paris experience and detailed the protocols applied, McConnell explained.
In Paris 2024, a twice of Russian athletes participated inside the individual neutral athlete team (AIN), compared to 209 athletes who made it to the Beijing Winter Olympic Games in 2022, the last time they did it under the Russian flag.
The Vladimir Putin government on February 5 assured that he wanted his Olympic team participating in the anthem and flag at Cortina D’A Apezzo to “defend the interests of his athletes and his team at the Olympic.”
“We need to invest the added time and effort to normalize this problem,” Kremlin’s representative said.
Source: La Verdad
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