Ukraine gets sports attention while in a war. WOW!

blackfoot NAP · May 4, 2023

Ukraine gets sports attention while in a war. WOW!

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C-40 · May 24, 2023

Italy puts limits on Russians at fencing worlds

Italy plans to impose restrictions on athletes from Russia and Belarus who will be allowed to compete at the fencing world championships in Milan in July, the head of its National Olympic Committee (CONI) said on Tuesday. Sofia Pozdniakova, the Olympic champion daughter of Russia's Olympic Committee president, will be one of those to face exclusion under the restrictions, which are prompted by advice from the Italian government. The athletes will not be able to compete in team events and none with links to military teams will be admitted

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blackfoot NAP · Jul 22, 2023

Russia's Vera Zvonareva blocked from entering Poland
Poland has become one of Ukraine's staunchest allies since Russia invaded the country in 2022, and it has been refusing entry to people who support the actions of Russia and Belarus. The tournament organizers did not immediately reply to an emailed request for comment.

blackfoot NAP · Jul 23, 2023

Oleksandr Usyk signs contract Ukranian football club
Heavyweight champion Usyk, who trained as a footballer with Ukraine's Tavriya Simferopol as a teenager before switching to boxing, signed a one-year "agreement on football cooperation" with the club on Wednesday and will wear the No. 17 shirt.

blackfoot NAP · Sep 20, 2023

Swimming sets 'strict' rules for individual Russians to return to competition before Paris Olympics
The criteria follow the International Olympic Committee’s guidelines that only individual athletes from Russia and Belarus — no teams — can be allowed to compete in Paris, and that they must not have shown any public support for the war.

C-40 · Oct 4, 2023

Russia-Ukraine WarBan on Russian Youth Teams in World Soccer Is Lifted

FIFA, international soccer’s governing body, will allow Russians in under-17 matches, aiming to separate the interests of young athletes from the actions of their governments. Soccer’s global governing body voted on Wednesday to allow youth teams from Russia to return to its competitions, overturning a blanket ban on the country that was imposed days after it invaded Ukraine last year. The teams will be permitted to play as the Football Union of Russia, the name of the country’s soccer federation, rather than Russia, and must do so in neutral colors, and without their national flag and anthem.

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C-40 · Oct 12, 2023

Russia-Ukraine war: IOC bans Russian Olympic Committee for including annexed regions of Ukraine

The International Olympic Committee on Thursday suspended the Russian Olympic Committee for recognising regional organisations from four territories annexed from Ukraine. Russia’s National Olympic Committee denounced the decision, calling it counterproductive and politically motivated.

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blackfoot NAP · Oct 15, 2023

No Russian athlete ban at Paris Games, despite suspension
Russian athletes can be directly invited to next year's Paris Games despite the suspension of their country's Olympic committee, the IOC said Friday. Bach reiterated the current IOC position that "we do not punish or sanction athletes for the acts of their officials or government."

MODMAN · Nov 17, 2023

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C-40 · Mar 10, 2024

Russian, Belarusian tennis players can enter Olympics as neutrals

Russian and Belarusian tennis players will be allowed to enter the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris as neutrals, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) confirmed Wednesday. The ITF said players from Russia and Belarus would be allowed to enter in "an individual and neutral capacity" if they met the selection and eligibility requirements as well as comply with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) regulations. "The ITF decision aligns with the majority of International Federations (IFs) regarding individual competition and athletes participating in the Paris 2024 Games this summer," the tennis world governing body said in a statement. The neutral athletes will compete without flags, emblems or anthems. Athletes who actively support the war in Ukraine are not eligible, nor are those contracted to the Russian or Belarusian military. Tennis players already compete on the ATP/WTA tours as neutrals.

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blackfoot NAP · Jun 21, 2024

russia cyclist aleksandr viasov declines neutral olympic nod
Russian and Belarusian athletes can only participate as neutrals -- without flags, anthems or any role in the opening parade -- because of the war in Ukraine, which Russia call a 'special military operation'

C-40 · Jun 29, 2024

Russians Karen Khachanov, Liudmila Samsonova decline Olympic bids

Russian tennis players Karen Khachanov and Liudmila Samsonova have declined to play at the Paris Olympics, the IOC said Friday, and their next-highest-ranked compatriots were invited instead. The IOC said Pavel Kotov, the 50th-ranked men's player, and Anna Kalinskaya, ranked No. 17, were invited to join the eight-person Russian team in Paris. The players are competing as neutrals during the military invasion of Ukraine. The Olympic tennis tournament will be held at Roland Garros from July 27 through Aug. 4. Governing bodies of Olympic sports and the IOC are vetting individual athletes from Russia and its military ally Belarus to compete with neutral status in Paris. Athletes are being blocked if they expressed support for the Russian invasion or had ties to sports clubs linked to the military or state security services.

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C-40 · Jul 8, 2024

Yaroslava Mahuchikh sets women's high jump world record

Ukraine's best high jumper captured a world record on Sunday to go with her world championship, and now she has a good reason to think she might bring home an Olympic gold medal to her war-torn country. At a Diamond League meet in Paris, Yaroslava Mahuchikh erased a mark that had stood for 37 years, jumping 2.10 meters (6.88 feet) in one of the last big tuneups leading into the Olympics. The previous record of 2.09 was set by Bulgaria's Stefka Kostadinova in Rome in 1987. Mahuchikh left her hometown of Dnipro shortly after the war with Russia began. Like virtually all elite athletes in her country, she has been training in foreign countries while keeping tabs on the war back home. She has been outspoken about the role Ukrainian sports can play to give signs of hope to those fighting for Ukraine's survival.

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C-40 · Jul 9, 2024

Svitolina wins at Wimbledon but in 'fog' after attacks on Ukraine

Elina Svitolina spoke haltingly, pausing occasionally to sigh, as she discussed the deadly Russian missile attack on her home country of Ukraine, an event that weighed on her and mattered far more than the straight-set victory Monday that meant a return to the Wimbledon quarterfinals. Svitolina has relatives back home -- a grandmother, an uncle, others -- and while victories like the 6-2, 6-1 scoreline against Wang Xinyu mean something to them, and can serve as "a small light that brought a happy moment for Ukrainian people," in her words, it is not easy to think too much about tennis. Dozens of Russian missiles hit five cities in Ukraine, striking apartment buildings and a children's hospital in the capital of Kyiv, killing at least 31 people and wounding more than 150, officials said. In 2022, the All England Club barred all Russian and Belarusian players from competing at Wimbledon, but they were allowed back in last year, albeit officially competing as "neutral" athletes whose nations are not identified in the draws or TV graphics.

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C-40 · Jul 14, 2024

Russian wrestler turns down offer to go to Paris Olympics

Russia's sole wrestler considering an invitation to compete in the Paris Olympics, Shamil Mamedov, has decided not to attend, Tass news agency quoted the national wrestling federation as saying on Saturday. The federation this week said Mamedov, 23, was free to decide whether to take part. He won a bronze medal at the 2023 world championships.

More than two years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, facilitated by Moscow's ally Belarus, Russian and Belarusian athletes are being allowed to compete in Paris strictly as neutrals, without flags or anthems. Their participation is subject to additional checks by the IOC that competitors have no connection to the military.

The list of Russian athletes going to Paris has thinned to just over a dozen, with several Russian sports federations refusing to compete in what they see as humiliating conditions.Thirty-six Russians received the green light to compete, but 20 of them subsequently declined to compete, the IOC said.

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C-40 · Jul 28, 2024

France investigating death threats against Israeli Olympians

French police have opened an investigation into death threats against three Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games, the Paris prosecutor's office said Sunday. Anti-cybercrime officers are also investigating the release of athletes' personal data on social networks Friday and seeking to have it removed, prosecutors said in a statement. In a statement Thursday, Israel's National Cyber Directorate said that after an investigation it had come to the conclusion that Iranian hackers were creating social media channels to publish personal information about members of the Israeli delegation and send them threatening messages. Also that day, Israel's foreign minister warned his French counterpart of a potential Iranian-backed plot to target Israeli athletes and tourists during the Olympic Games. The Iranian mission to the United Nations said in a statement Thursday: "Terrorist acts have no place in the principles of resistance groups; lies and deceit cannot switch the roles of the plaintiff and the accused."

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C-40 · Jul 30, 2024

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