Olympic chiefs have urged the British government to respect the 'autonomy of sport' after an attempt to lobby sponsors against a proposed pathway for Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate at next year's Paris Games. Britain's Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer last week wrote a letter to 13 of the big
Olympic chiefs have urged the British government to respect the"autonomy of sport" after an attempt to lobby sponsors against a proposed pathway for Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate at next year's Paris Games.
"It is not up to governments to decide which athletes can participate in which international competitions. This would be the end of world sport as we know it today," the IOC said on Monday."It must be the sole responsibility of sports organisations to decide which athletes can take part in international competitions based exclusively on their sporting merit.
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