14 Russians handed Olympic lustration, most of them wrestlers (VIDEO)

The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) named 14 Russian athletes who had been examined by a particular fee for admission to the Olympics in Paris.

Three individuals certified for biking, one for trampolining, and the remaining 10 for wrestling. The surnames of the athletes, out there on the IOC web site, point out the origin of a minimum of half of those Russian residents from the republics of the North Caucasus.

Among the many Belarusians there are up to now 11 admitted athletes: one in biking, two every in trampolining and weightlifting, and 6 in wrestling.

Neither Belarusian nor Russian athletes had been allowed to compete in taekwondo. On this sport, two males’s and two girls’s quotas had been allotted for Russians, and one other males’s quota was allotted for a Belarusian athlete.

In December 2023, the IOC Govt Committee allowed Russian and Belarusian athletes to the Olympics in Paris in impartial standing in particular person competitions. The Committee allotted 54 quotas for athletes from Russia, and one other 28 for Belarusians.

In March, the IOC created a particular fee that evaluates the correct of each Russian and Belarusian to carry out in Paris in a impartial standing.

Among the many IOC’s necessities for impartial standing is the shortage of help for Russia’s battle towards Ukraine, in addition to ties with the military and intelligence companies, together with the Dynamo and CSKA sports activities golf equipment.