Biathlon Union Defies Olympic Committee, Upholds Ban on Russian, Belarusian Athletes
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More than four years after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has lifted some of the restrictions imposed on Russian athletes, who will be able to target the Olympic Games 2028, even in team sports.
Although several international sports federations have begun to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete with their symbols again, the International Biathlon Union (IBU) has no intention of doing so. This is causing pain in the Russian sports scene.
The International Union of Biathletes refused to remove sanctions from Russian athletes and allow them to compete.
About this, Sergiy Averyanov, a kerivnik of the press service to the Union of Biathlons of Russia, wrote that the SBR Congress will fight to the Viscount of the IBU, including in due course the Congress on the return of Russian athletes to the world national recognition and renewal of the status of the Russian Biathlonists Union as a full member of the federation. “However, you can't plan to talk to these people at the Congress,” Averyanov said.…
The International Biathlonist Union (IBU) did not consider returning Russian and Belarusian athletes to international competition; the topic is also excluded from the agenda of the IBU Congress in September in Germany.
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