Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Saturday Russian and Belarusian athletes “were not welcome” at the Olympics being staged in the French capital this year.
Authorities from two nations barred from the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris have fired back at a message that warned their athletes to steer clear.
Russian athletes can compete in the Paris Olympics, which run from July 26 until August 11 but only as neutrals. The IOC suspended Russia from the 2024 Games last year, but gave the green light for its athletes to compete as neutrals as long as they did not actively support the Kremlin’s assault on Ukraine.
It came after authorities announced around 800 people who “did not have good intentions” were to be excluded from the Games over security fears.“The French people must know that we absolutely check everyone who approaches the Olympic Games — so there are the volunteers, torch bearers, the people who will welcome you,” French interior minister Gerald Darmanin said.
Darmanin specified that among those excluded were “radical Islamists” and “radical ecology people who want to protest”. Paris will host the Summer Olympics from July 26 till August 11, 2024. Picture: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
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