The Government has written to the IOC confirming it accepts the criteria which are in place.
Lucy Frazer has given the UK government’s backing to the conditions governing Russian and Belarusian athletes
The Government did not issue any public statement ahead of Bach’s revelation making clear it felt the conditions were now acceptable.Frazer said in April last year that IOC conditions on neutrality did “not go far enough” and said any athlete who had been in receipt of state funding was a “de facto representative of those states”.
Despite this, Frazer and the Government now feel the IOC and International Paralympic Committee’s neutrality conditions have reached an “accepted baseline”. “After two years of concerted lobbying, they have done that. And the result is that the number of athletes from Russia and Belarus expected to participate in the Olympics is in the tens, not hundreds.
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