With 18 months to go before the Paris Olympics, a deeply political question already looms: whether the IOC will allow Russian athletes to compete amid their country's invasion of Ukraine.
Under the suspension, Russian athletes competed at the Olympics under the name of"Olympic Athletes from Russia" in 2018, then as the"Russian Olympic Committee" in 2021 and 2022.Olympic history is full of disputes about national representation
In 1908, only the fourth summer games ever, Finland — then an autonomous part of the Russian Empire — was allowed to compete separately from the empire but could not display its own flag. Heated debates and boycotts took place regularly in the postwar decades over Israel and the Middle East, the Soviet Union, North and South Korea, and other geopolitical rifts.Perhaps most famously, the IOC banned South Africa from the Olympics from 1964 until 1992 over its apartheid policies. Similarly, Rhodesian athletes were blocked from competing in the games in 1968, 1972 and 1976 over the country's white supremacist rule .
that international sports federations not invite or allow the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes, the committee's stance has changed as the conflict has dragged on.
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