In a resolution adopted on Thursday 22 June, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe calls on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to maintain its position expressed in 2022 and to ban the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The IOC’s efforts to define the criteria allowing them to participate as “neutral” competitors “cannot provide the necessary guarantees and will not constitute a response worthy of...