Zelenskyy needs “complete disengagement” of Russia and Belarus from the 2024 Olympics.
The President of Ukraine made it clear that he does not want Russian involvement in any way.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, wants to exclude Russia and Belarus from the Olympics in 2024.
Zelenskyy called IOC President Thomas Bach on December 14 and advocated for the isolation of Russian athletes as well as the Russian team.
He said that he was “disappointed” that the IOC was looking into ways to make sure Russian athletes could participate under neutral banners.
According to a Newsweek report
President Zelenskky also stated that the “complete isolation of the terrorist state on the international stage” would be the “only fair response” to Russia.
Although he did not specify how Russian athletes are connected to the conflict in Ukraine, he stated that Russia’s actions have resulted in the deaths of 184 athletes.
Olympic politics The Games of 2024 will be held in Paris, France.
The Games have served as a showcase for the best athletes in the world and a source of national pride throughout history.
However, political debates have also surrounded the Olympics.
When city-states used the victories of their athletes as a means of demonstrating their power and superiority, this was one of the earliest instances of politicization at the Olympics.
Cities would go to great lengths to ensure that their athletes would win, which resulted in widespread corruption and cheating.
The Olympics have recently been used as a platform for political protest.
For instance, at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City
American competitors Tommie Smith and John Carlos brought their clench hands up in a Dark Power salute during the decoration service for the 200-meter race.
This demonstration of dissent against prejudice and segregation ignited broad contention and discussion.
The 1976 Summer Games in Montreal, Canada, provided the most well-known illustration of Olympic politicization.
As a result of the New Zealand national rugby team’s recent tour of apartheid-ruled South Africa, several African and Caribbean nations boycotted the Games in protest of New Zealand’s participation.
As a result of this boycott, many top athletes from these nations were unable to attend the Games.
The International Olympic Committee’s complex discussion about allowing Russian athletes to compete at the Paris Games in 2024
If their country is still at war did not help the athletes’ standing among leaders in track and field, the Olympic program’s most important sport, in the short term.
In a year-end interview this week
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said that Russian track athletes have had a harder time meeting
The IOC’s goal of competing as neutrals either at the world championships next year or at the Olympics.
The year after that because of the war in Ukraine and the doping sanctions that have been in place since 2015.
A two-step procedure for Russian reinstatement was outlined by Coe.
After a series of positive reports from a task force that monitors Russia’s compliance with reform efforts,
It seems more likely that the doping sanctions would be lifted at a World Athletics council meeting in March.