Ukraine's Minister of Youth and Sport Matvis Bidnyi condemned the IOC Executive Board's decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete at the 2024 Olympics as neutrals, calling it irresponsible.
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The decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to hide behind fake neutrality is irresponsible
Russian athletes hold the same passports as the occupiers who are killing Ukrainians and bear partial responsibility for Ukrainians' deaths
Russia is the only country which has violated an Olympic truce three times
Russia is trying to conduct alternative Olympics and threatening to arrive at the Olympics in tanks
Ukrainian Foreign Minister condemned the decision to allow Belarusian and Russian athletes to compete
The IOC's executive board decided that Individual Neutral Athletes (AINs) who have qualified through the existing qualification systems will be declared eligible to compete at Paris 2024
The IOC Executive Committee decided to allow Russians and Belarusians to compete at the 2024 Olympics in neutral status.
Ukraine's acting Minister of Youth and Sports Matvii Bidnyi condemned the IOC decision, stating that neutrality during the war implies tacit consent to killers.
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