Russian and Belarusian athletes who end on the rostrum in Paralympics occasions in Paris this yr won’t have their medal wins recorded on the Video games medals desk, the Worldwide Paralympic Committee (IPC) stated on Wednesday.
Russian and Belarusian athletes will compete as Impartial Paralympic Athletes (NPA) in uniforms not that includes any nationwide colors after the IPC voted in opposition to sustaining a full ban of the international locations, imposed after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
“Medal wins won’t be recorded on the Paris 2024 Paralympic Video games medals desk and will a impartial athlete win a gold medal, the Paralympic anthem shall be performed,” the IPC’s Governing Board stated in an announcement.
“The nationwide flags of Russia and Belarus, in addition to different nationwide symbols together with these which relate to the navy are strictly prohibited within the neighborhood of any venue related to the Paralympic Video games.
“The nationwide anthems of Russia and Belarus won’t be performed.”
Impartial athletes won’t march within the opening ceremony and could have no flagbearer on the closing ceremony.
The athletes will even be independently vetted to make sure they aren’t contracted to the navy and haven’t supported the Ukraine conflict, which Russia calls a particular navy operation.
Belarus has been a staging floor for Russian troops and weapons in the course of the invasion.
