Bach detailed IOC advice on Tuesday to individual Olympic sports bodies of conditions by which they could decide to approve individual Russian or Belarusians to compete as neutral athletes, while continuing a ban from team sports.
also suggested those governments – which seemed to include his own home country Germany – had “double standards” for focusing on athletes from countries involved in just one of about 70 wars and armed conflicts ongoing in the world.
Germany sports minister Nancy Faeser said the IOC’s shift from its position one year ago to exclude all athletes and teams from Russia and Belarus as “a slap in the face of Ukrainian athletes.” “It’s deplorable that these governments don’t address the question of double standards with which we have been confronted,” the German lawyer said.
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