“The sanctions against the Russian and Belarusian states and governments are not negotiable. They have been unanimously confirmed by the recent Olympic summit meeting on 9 December 2022,” the IOC tweeted.
Last week, however, the IOC said the Olympic Council of Asia had offered Russian and Belarusian athletes the chance to compete in Asia, drawing an outcry from Kyiv which has called for Russian sportspeople to be banned over Russia’s invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that allowing Russia to compete at the 2024 Games would be tantamount to showing that “terror is somehow acceptable.” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Monday that the IOC was “promoting violence, mass murders, destruction” and that a Russian presence at the Games would constitute giving the country “a platform to promote genocide”.
now let's see tennis and other sports follow suit and let's bar ALL Russians and Belarusians from obtaining visas
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