FILE PHOTO: John Coates, President of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport and IOC Vice-President is pictured during the inauguration ceremony of the new headquarters for the Court of Arbitration for Sport , an independent institution that resolves around 900 legal disputes in the field of sport through arbitration and mediation, in Lausanne, Switzerland, June 27, 2022.
"The issue is how many of them are going to be there too, because they're not going to be in any team sports because they can't compete as Russia," Coates said in Sunday's edition of Sydney's Daily Telegraph. Because of doping sanctions that prevented them from competing under the Russian flag, 335 athletes took part in the 2021 Tokyo Summer Games as the Russian Olympic Committee team, winning 71 medals. Belarus sent 101 athletes who won seven medals.
Some sports, such as equestrian, have announced they will not allow any athletes from the two countries to compete, while World Athletics has had a blanket ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes since early 2022.
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