IOC suspends Russian Olympic Committee for incorporating Ukrainian sports regions

Source: Euronews with AP

IOC suspends Russian Olympic Committee for incorporating Ukrainian sports regions

By Euronews with AP
Published on 12/10/2023 - 17:56

Russia has been proscribed by multiple international sports bodies over the last decade for doping violations and geopolitical aggression.

After nearly 20 months of waging war in Ukraine, Russia has been suspended by the International Olympic Committee, or IOC, for breaching the Olympic Charter by incorporating sports councils in four regions in eastern Ukraine.

The IOC's executive board imposed the suspension on Thursday, a week after after Russian Olympic officials provoked the dispute by "accepting" the councils in the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia as its members.

The "unilateral decision," the IOC said in a statement from Mumbai, India, "constitutes a breach of the Olympic Charter because it violates the territorial integrity of the NOC of Ukraine, as recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in accordance with the Olympic Charter."

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