Canada’s sport minister Pascale St-Onge says athletes from Russia, Belarus should not be allowed to compete at Olympics
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 athletes from those countries could be allowed to compete under a neutral flag.
“I’ve had many conversations with the COC. Their current position – and it’s our government’s position as well – is that there’s no reason to review the ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes at this point because the war is still ongoing, and we don’t see a path forward to neutrality,” St-Onge said. “So our position is clear.”
The athletes’ letter said a requirement for Russians to declare opposition to the war is “unfounded and out of touch.”
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