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RUSSIA, BELARUS ATHLETES BARRED FROM PARALYMPICS AFTER BOYCOTT THREATS, SAFETY
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By OlympicTalkMar 3, 2022, 8:55 AM EST
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Russian and Belarusian athletes were barred from the Paralympics after the
International Paralympic Committee said athletes from many other nations vowed
to not compete if they remained in the Games.

The IPC also said ensuring safety at the athletes’ village was becoming
untenable after an earlier decision to allow Russians and Belarusians to compete
as neutral athletes. The Games open Friday.

“We are also firm believers that sport and politics should not mix,” IPC
President Andrew Parsons said. “However, it is clear that maybe now, due to the
current situation, that is no longer possible. The war has now come to these
Games, and behind the scenes, many governments are having an influence on our
cherished event.

“A rapidly escalating situation has now put us in a unique and impossible
situation so close to the start of the Games.”

The IPC reversed a decision from 20 hours earlier that allowed Russians and
Belarusians to compete as neutrals without their national flags, symbols and
anthems. Russians were previously set to compete as members of the Russian
Paralympic Committee, without their flag and anthem due to the nation’s previous
sanctions for doping.

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In explaining their initial decision, the IPC anticipated that if the athletes
were barred, a legal appeal to get them back in would be successful based on the
IPC’s rulebook.

After the initial decision, Parsons said that “a really high number” of National
Paralympic Committees (NPCs) said at least some of their athletes would not
compete in the Games if Russians and Belarusians were allowed to compete, even
as neutrals.

“What we’ve seen in the 14 hours since is a move from letters [from NPCs] of ‘We
think you should ban,’ to now, ‘We’re thinking of going home. We’re not
playing,'” IPC spokesperson Craig Spence said. “That’s a huge change. If we
don’t act on that, then we’re crazy.

“If we didn’t pivot on today’s decision, we’d probably be talking to you in two
days’ time about the fact that there’s not enough athletes here to do the
Games.”

Parsons said he spoke with National Paralympic Committees’ chefs de mission on
Thursday morning. Wheelchair curling teams and sled hockey teams were refusing
to play. The first games in those sports are Saturday, the day after the Opening
Ceremony.

Parsons also said that the athletes’ village “was becoming a very volatile
environment” after the initial decision to allow Russians and Belarusians to
compete as neutrals, though there were no reports of aggression.

“There was a level of animosity that, of course, was absolutely
counter-productive to what, first of all, we want to have here, which is a fair
competition between athletes from different nations,” Parsons said. “The
athletes’ reactions showed us that if we did not take action, the situation
could get worse.”

The IPC is working to get the Russian and Belarusian athletes travel
arrangements to return home.

“To the Para athletes from the impacted countries, we are very sorry that you
are affected by the decision that your government took last week in breaching
the Olympic Truce,” Parsons said, noting the tradition of nations agreeing to
peace through the Olympics and Paralympics. “You are victims of your
government’s actions.”

Russian sports minister Oleg Matytsin said Russia is drafting an appeal to the
Court of Arbitration for Sport before the Opening Ceremony, according to Russian
news agency TASS.

The Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) called the ban “completely unfounded.”

“It clearly contradicts one of the basic principles of the Paralympic family —
the apolitical nature of sport for the disabled,” it said in a statement. “In
accordance with this decision the RPC and Russian Para athletes appear as the
perpetrators of the current political conflicts. … They have not done anything
that in any way can be interpreted as participation in the current political
complications.”

In a statement, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee said it strongly
supported the IPC’s decision to bar Russian and Belarusian athletes.

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