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'Russian flag cannot be at Paris Olympics,' Macron says, 09.07.2023.

"Russia as a country has no place at a time when it has committed war crimes," he said.

In an interview with French sports newspaper L'Équipe, French President Emmanuel Macron stated that the Russian flag should not be allowed at the Paris-2024 Olympic Games due to accusations of "war crimes" committed by Russia in the conflict with Ukraine.

"Obviously the Russian flag cannot be at the Paris Games, I believe this generates a consensus,” he said. "Russia as a country has no place at a time when it has committed war crimes and is deporting children," he said.

Macron also took a position on the possible participation of Russian athletes competing individually, stating that the decision should be made by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and not by the host state.

"I want it to be a decision in the conscience of the Olympic world..."It is not up to the host state to decide what the IOC [International Olympic Committee] should do," Macron said on Wednesday. "I have full confidence in [IOC President] Thomas Bach," he said later.

"The Olympic world will have to decide what place to give to Russian athletes who have sometimes prepared themselves all their lives and who can also be victims of this regime.”

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The IOC continued to mock Russian sports, by Maxim Domchev for Rossiyskaia Gazeta. 12.08.2023.

The sudden decision of the International Olympic Committee on the admission of Russian athletes to the Olympic Games in Paris should not cause any illusions - the organization continued the policy of Russophobia and discrimination.

Most recently, the IOC announced that the final decision on the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the 2024 Games in Paris will be announced no earlier than next spring.

But on Friday he suddenly announced his decision - to allow those athletes who had already passed the Olympic qualification to compete. Naturally, as individual neutral athletes, that is, without a flag and anthem, with an incomprehensible abbreviation AIN. The IOC can only prohibit athletes from speaking Russian among themselves. And it is very symbolic that the organization announced its decision on the day when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to run for a new term.

The IOC also reported that at the moment, 11 athletes who have already fulfilled the qualification conditions can receive the right to compete. 8 of them represent Russia, 3 - Belarus. At the same time, the IOC hastened to add that there will definitely not be a large number of Russians in Paris. In the remaining time, a "very limited number of athletes" will qualify.

But this will not be the end of the IOC’s bullying. Those who are able to qualify have yet to prove that they can be neutral athletes, have no connection with CSKA or Dynamo and have not publicly spoken out in support of their country since the events in Ukraine began. Well, in order to definitely get to the start in Paris, they will have to sign updated conditions for participation in the Olympics. What content this paper will have is still unknown, but even here we should expect a trick from the IOC.

Friday's decision by the IOC is discriminatory and Russophobic. After all, the vast majority of leading Russian athletes have still not been given permission to participate in tournaments and have a chance to compete at the Games. And the IOC covers up all its affairs by mentioning the Olympic Charter, which it itself repeatedly violates. And Friday's decision looks like a pathetic attempt at a handout.

Moreover, given the fact that the IOC had previously temporarily suspended the Russian Olympic Committee. The head of the organization, Thomas Bach, regularly talks about how sport should be outside of politics, that sport should unite. Against this background, the IOC is already putting pressure on countries that want to take part in the World Friendship Games in Russia, and another openly anti-Russian organization - the World Anti-Doping Agency - is threatening sanctions.

The Olympic movement in its current form is experiencing a serious crisis. Nothing remained of the ideals of Baron Coubertin. The IOC has become a platform for anti-Russian attacks and has lost its authority, it seems, irrevocably. It seems that the head of the Russian Olympic Committee, Stanislav Pozdnyakov, is right when he called Bach’s department exponents of other people’s ideas, and, undoubtedly, by removing the Russians, the once most influential sports structure in the world is only making things worse for itself.

https://rg.ru/2023/12/08/mok-prodolzhil-izdevatsia-nad-rossijskim-sportom.html