Ukrainian athletes slammed the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) on Wednesday after it announced that athletes from Russia and Belarus will be allowed to compete at the 2022 Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing this month as 'neutral' participants.
"IPC [will] host extraordinary General Assembly in 2022 to vote on whether to make compliance with the Olympic Truce a membership requirement and whether to suspend or terminate the membership of the Russian Paralympic Committee and Belarus Paralympic Committee," the statement added."IPC will not hold any events in Russia or Belarus until further notice."
The Athletes of Ukraine also took aim at the International Olympic Committee , claiming that both organizations continued to"choose politics over principle." Olympics, bobsleigh, monobob, women, 3rd heat, at the National Sliding Centre, Lidija Gunko of Ukraine in action.that sports federations ban Russian and Belarusian athletes on Monday, adding that should they compete, they cannot do so under their respective countries’ flags.
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