Individual Neutral Athletes are athletes with Belarusian or Russian passports who have been confirmed as eligible and invited to compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
For these Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which are to begin shortly, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Board of Directors set strict conditions. In March of this year, the IOC established the Athlete Eligibility Review Panel (AINRP) which has reviewed the athletes according to the conditions.
In accordance with the Principles concerning the implementation of the participation of individual neutral athletes and their support staff with Russian or Belarusian passport in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and following the decision of the AINRP, the following athletes have been declared eligible and have been invited to participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
“Mission of peace of the Olympic movement”
It should be noted that participation in the Games is subject to the athlete’s acceptance of the individual invitation and signature of the Conditions of Participation applicable to all participants. This signature contains the commitment to respect the Olympic Charter, including “the mission of peace of the Olympic movement”.
In road cycling, the invited Russian athletes are Tamara Dronova, Alena Ivanchenko and Alexander Vlasov and Belarusian Hanna Tserakh. In trampoline gymnastics, Russian Anzhela Bladtceva and Belarusians Ivan Litvinovich and Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya are invited. In weightlifting the guests are Belarusians Siuzanna Valodzka and Yauheni Tsikhantsou and for wrestling, the list is fattened with Russians Nachin Mongush, Shamil Mamedov, Arslan Bagaev, Abdulla Kurbanov, Alan Ostaev, Magomed Murtazaliev, Natalia Malysheva, Veronica Chumikova, Alina Kasabieva, Elizaveta Petliakova and Belarusians Yahor Akulich, Uladzislau Kazlou, Abubakar Khalakhanau, Dzmitri Zarubski, Viyaleta Rebikava and Krystsina Sazykina.
The controversy is served, athletes, federations and other voices within the Olympic Games do not look favorably on everything that comes from Russia but as noted above, the spirit of this decision goes along with the spirit of the Olympic Charter and the message of peace that the International Olympic Committee wants to send.
