Russia 2025 Olympics News. The ban against russia and belarus goes back to february, 2022 when iihf officials voted in favor of suspending their eligibility for sanctioned events. Olympic chiefs on tuesday recommended the return to competition of russian and belarusian athletes as individual neutrals, but refused to give a timeline on their potential participation at.
Russia’s olympic body on monday launched an appeal against its suspension by the international olympic committee (ioc) at the court of arbitration for sport (cas), the sports tribunal said. Russia’s plan to hold the ‘friendship games’ is a political action that violates the olympic charter, and countries should not take part in them, the international olympic committee said on.
