Russia is banned from the Olympics, but Russian athletes can still compete—just without a bear symbol or the national anthem
involves training camps, trial competitions and mental preparation. For Russians, it also includes horse-trading over bears and music.
Caught in a doping scandal, Russia has been stripped of its key identifying markers like a flag or a national anthem. Russia, in fact, isn’t officially competing in Tokyo as a country. Its athletes are competing as ROC, for the Russian Olympic Committee.from international sports until the end of 2022 after the World Anti-Doping Agency found it guilty of running a state-sponsored doping program. Clean Russian athletes were allowed to participate in Tokyo, under strict guidelines.
So ahead of the Tokyo Games, Russian officials and the IOC had to hammer out details including the kind of music to play for their winners instead of the national anthem, what the uniforms would look like and where Russian flags can or can’t be positioned . Tokyo is the third Olympics where Russians will compete with their country either partially or fully banned. Around 330 athletes will represent the ROC in Tokyo.
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