The IOC will permit individual Russian and Belarusian athletes to take part in the Paris Olympics as neutrals without their national flag or anthem as long as they haven’t actively supported the war or aren’t contracted to the military. Olympic officials have decided some Russian and Belarusian athletes can compete in Paris next year. But recent cases have raised concern over how neutrality rules will be enforced. Ukraine’s acting sports minister believes the decision of Vladislav Larin, a Russian taekwondo fighter, to appear in a video that calls on residents of his home region to donate money for medicine and ammunition for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should cost him a spot at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. What is your take on Olympics neutrality ?

