Sports: the IOC suspends the Russian Olympic committee

The International Olympic Committee suspended the Russian National Olympic Committee (NOC) this Thursday “with immediate effect” for having placed several organizations in occupied Ukrainian regions under its authority, the organization’s spokesperson announced.

This decision automatically deprives the Russian body of Olympic funding, but has no consequences on the possible presence of Russian athletes under a neutral banner at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, which will be decided by the IOC “at the appropriate time”, Mark Adams told the press.

For the Olympic organization, which has shaken up its agenda and given up examining the sports program for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, it is a question of sanctioning the “violation” by the Russians of the “territorial integrity” of the Olympic committee Ukrainian, therefore of the Olympic Charter, specified Mark Adams.

On October 5, the Russian NOC “unilaterally” included among its members the regional sports organizations of Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk and Zaporozhye, located in eastern Ukraine occupied by the Russian army.