International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach gestures as he speaks during a news conference, ahead of the 141st IOC Session, in Mumbai, India, October 13, 2023. REUTERS/Niharika Kulkarni/File Photo
"... we learned that an invitation to the Games is not an unconditional right of the best athletes but a kind of privilege and can be earned not by sporting results but by political gestures that have nothing to do with sport at all," Putin told a conference in the Urals city of Perm. As a result, since 2018, Russians considered to be doping-free have been allowed to compete at the Olympics only under neutral flags. The IOC did not say last week whether they would be admitted to the Paris 2024 Olympics.
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