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Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), said that ” many Ukrainian athletes know how much we share their suffering and the efforts we make to help them “, this Sunday, February 12 in Courchevel on the occasion of the downhill of the Alpine Skiing World Championships. On several occasions, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for the exclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the next Olympic Games, again recently calling for ” protect the olympic charter “. Several states, such as the Baltic countries, are considering a boycott of the Olympics in the event of the presence of these athletes. ” It is not for governments to decide of such exclusion, Mr. Bach replied. “A UN Human Rights Council rapporteur tells us that excluding Russian or Belarusian athletes just because of their passports is a violation of their rights “, he also specified.
