Australia’s Olympic chief Carroll greenlights Russia, Belarus for 2032 Summer Olympics
Australia’s National Olympic Committee (AOC) expressed its readiness to welcome athletes representing Russia and Belarus to the 2032 Olympic Games in Brisbane, AOC chief executive Matt Carroll told reporters, Russian news agency TASS reported. .
According to Carroll, Russian and Belarusian athletes “will participate in the 2032 Olympic Games in Brisbane, despite opposition from the Australian federal government.”
Carroll said, “These are not the athletes who started the war, who are the ones causing the grief and tragedy.” “The position of the AOC is that of the International Olympic Committee.”
“Sport is the unification of the world. Athletes don’t start the conflict, they are not the cause of the situation, so there is an opportunity to unite, not divide the world. You remember the boycott of different countries in 1980.”
The 1980 Summer Olympic Games were held in Moscow, the capital of Russia, between 19 July and 3 August. The 1980 Summer Olympics, hosted by the then Soviet Union, was boycotted by many foreign countries, including the United Nations. TASS reported that the state was opposed to the Soviet military presence in Afghanistan.
After Tokyo is home to the Olympic flame at the 2020 Summer Games, it will travel to Paris for the 2024 Summer Games and then to Los Angeles in 2028. In 2021, Brisbane, Australia, was selected to host the 2032 Summer Olympic Games at the 138th IOC (International Olympic Committee) session in Tokyo, TASS reported.
At its session on January 25, 2023, the IOC Executive Board proposed allowing individual athletes from Russia and Belarus to participate in international sports tournaments, but only under certain conditions. Athletes from the countries in question must not “actively support” Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and must compete under neutral status.
On February 2, the sports ministers of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland urged the IOC and International Federations (IFs) to ban athletes representing Russia and Belarus from participating in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, TASS reported told.
On 9 February, Reuters news agency quoted IOC President Thomas Bach as saying in a statement that a possible boycott of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris by the Ukrainian National Olympic Committee (NOC) would be a violation of the Olympic Charter.
TASS reported that on February 28, 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued recommendations to international sports federations to bar athletes from Russia and Belarus from participating in international tournaments, citing Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine.
Following the IOC’s recommendations in late February 2022, most global sports federations decided to exclude athletes from Russia and Belarus from all international sports tournaments.
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