The Olympic Rings being put in front of the Eiffel Tower in event of the French capital won the hosting right for the 2024 summer season Olympic Games.
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Russian and Belarusian professional athletes will not be permitted to participate in the conventional parade at the opening event at the Paris Olympics, the IOC stated Tuesday.
The opening event on July 26 will see countless professional athletes take a trip on boats down the River Seine for a number of miles (kilometers) towards the Eiffel Tower, rather of the typical parade of groups inside an arena.
The IOC stated professional athletes from Russia and Belarus who are authorized to contend at the Olympics as neutrals will have an opportunity just “to experience the event”– most likely seeing from near the river. The IOC has actually set out a vetting treatment for Russian and Belarusian professional athletes to be given neutral status, with requirements consisting of that they should not have actually openly supported the intrusion of Ukraine, or be connected with military or state security firms.
The IOC stated it anticipates about 36 neutral professional athletes with Russian passports and 22 with Belarus passports to receive the Paris Games.
A choice on whether those professional athletes will be permitted to participate in theAug 11 closing event will be taken “at a later stage,” the IOC stated.
