Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be allowed to participate in the parade of nations at the opening ceremony of the Paris Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said.
The athletes, who will be competing in the Games under a neutral flag, “will not participate in the parade of delegations and teams during the opening ceremony since they are individual athletes,” IOC director James McCloud said after an IOC executive board meeting on Tuesday in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Russian and Belarusian athletes who qualify for the Games will do so without their flags and anthems as a result of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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