Canada’s sport minister and the Canadian Olympic Committee have restated that Russia and Belarus should be excluded from the next Olympics, but differ on if…
Hours later, the COC issued a statement in response to the retired Olympians, noting that it had offered to host a special meeting with its board of directors and the letters’ signatories to have a dialogue about the war in Ukraine. The COC says its requests for dialogue, which began in early February, have been rejected thus far.
The athletes’ letter said a requirement for Russians to declare opposition to the war is “unfounded and out of touch.” They also pointed to instances in 2018 and 2021 when Russians could compete not under their country’s flag — but instead under the titles of “Olympic Athletes from Russia” and “Russian Olympic Committee” due to doping sanctions — as examples of how “separation of athlete from state is an impossible task.”“The models that were proposed previously by the IOC in regards to neutrality, whether it was because of drug use by Russian athletes, has never worked,” she said.
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