The Russian government has abolished the organizing committee for preparing athletes for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The corresponding order was published on the official legal information portal.
“Suppress the organizing committee for the preparation of Russian athletes for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.” – says the document.
The Organizing Committee was created in 2014 with the aim of coordinating the efforts of federal and regional authorities and organizations to create conditions for the performance of Russian athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic Games. In December 2014 he was appointed first president of the organizing committee. Arkady Dvorkovich.
In October 2023, the International Olympic Committee suspended the Russian Olympic Committee until further notice for including the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions among its members of the Olympic Councils. The ROC appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), but the claim was rejected.
The Russian Olympic Committee said the CAS decision speaks to “an unprecedented scale of civil and sporting discrimination.”
At the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, 15 Russian athletes were allowed to compete in neutral status, many were not allowed to compete; At the 2024 Paralympic Games, 88 Russian athletes competed, also in a neutral state, RBC recalls.
