Ukraine: “We want to appeal to the international community for peace through the Paris Olympics and Paralympics”. Two years have passed since Russia's military invasion of Ukraine began.
Over the past two years, sports-related damage in the country has resulted in at least 400 deaths, including athletes and coaches. The IOC has decided that athletes from Russia and its ally Belarus will be participating in the Paris Games as "neutral individual athletes" Russian Sports Minister Matitsyn: "The conditions presented are absolutely discriminatory"