Russian athletes will be able to compete as full participants or neutral athletes at next year's Paris Paralympics after the International Paralympic Committee members voted against a full ban on Friday.
The decision clears the way for Russian athletes, who are currently banned from any Paralympic competition, to be in Paris and what the IPC will decide later on Friday is whether they will do so in full national team gear or if they will compete as neutrals, without national emblems, flags or anthem.'At the IPC General Assembly in Bahrain, IPC members voted 74-65 against a motion to fully suspend NPC Russia for breaches of its constitutional membership obligations,' the IPC said.
The IPC had last year suspended the paralympic committees of both countries and banned their athletes from competing following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Belarus has acted as a staging ground for Russian troops and weapons.Although an appeal against the suspension of the committees was upheld this year, Russian and Belarusian para-athletes remain banned from competitions to this day.The IOC has not sanctioned the Russian or Belarus Olympic Committee or Russian members of the IOC.
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