The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) announced on Wednesday that it would allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals at the Paralympic Games, which run from March 4 to March 13 in Beijing, China.
IPC President Andrew Parsons said the board was “united in its condemnation” of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but that its decision was guided by its “constitutional purpose and handbook.”
Following the IPC’s announcement, Parsons was questioned by a protester who asked what he would say to the family of Ukranian biathlete Yevhen Malyshev, who was reportedly killed in Kharkiv.
“I want to know what you would say to them about allowing athletes from the aggressor states to compete, when he will never get that chance,” he said.
Parsons agreed it is “absolutely not fair” that Russian and Belarus athletes would be able to compete while Malyshev would not, but reiterated that the IPC had to follow its own “rules and regulations” on competing.
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What about the US bombing somalia a week ago
Does anybody watch this anyways?
Humans have been unknowingly dumbed down domesticated deceived deluded degraded demoralized divided disempowered disenfranchised into robotic puppet slaves by deadly devious diabolical demons
The IOC made a mistake in awarding an Olympic to the Chinese 🇨🇳 genocidal regime.
Just remember folks , who's been presenting outright lies and psychological propaganda for two full years .
Suddenly MSM is legit ?
There IOC has no balls
Nato has nukes pointed at Russia! This community of people have 2 faces! and there are 2 sides to every story! Not one country can claim innocence!
With ALL that's going on right now with Russian aggression, I turn my back on the Olympic Committee's decision, and sadly the Paralympics. But there are some issues that cannot be tolerated.
So, The USA can commit genocide in Iraq/Afghanistan, and Yemen (Ongoing), and nobody is banning American Athletes? What do the Athletes have to do with the decisions of their home countries government anyway? Seriously.. After 9/11, and during all our middle eastern wars, everyone proudly proclaimed anti-xenophobia, and anti-racism towards Muslims while their governments commited genocides, sponsored terrorism, etc. Now we are being told, and accepting that Russians are all going to be individually held accountable for the actions of their Dictatorship government, a government in which they have no voice? This is Hilarious!!! You people absolutely love your Moral Superiority, as Hypocritical as it is!
Never-mind the Hypocrisy though, Keep up the hate, I'll grab some popcorn and watch as you all demonize, and dehumanize Russians to sate your own overindulgent moral ineptitude, and I'll sit back and watch you spew your hyper-ignorant liberal platitudes about non-discrimination, anti-hate, and holding accountable the wicked. Nothing brings me more joy than watching the wickedly self-righteous punish others to satiate their own fragile misguided moralizing egos.
IOC must go they are cowards. Belarus and Russia must both be banned from this Paralympics and the Olympics until they have left the Ukraine and Crimea.
Parsons states he can ONLY express his regrets to the family of the Ukraine athlete – a disgraceful lie! There is a lot more the ipc can do – but will not!
Won’t be watching
And may not ever again
What a joke.
This isn’t right shame on the IOC
Because of this decision I’ll never watch the Olympics again
Did anybody forget that Hitler held the Olympics doesn’t this seem kind of idiotic and trivial plus you can probably mix in a little hypocritical
thank you Nato and US to be so coward and weak against the bully, thank you for not protecting people of Ukraine but increasing your own defense budget and hiding behind women and children of Ukraine, we remember your inaction, world's watching and will remember it
Thanks be to all of our gods the ipc have u turned and banned them.
Double standard and hypocrisy
Waiting for Russia akating 🤣🤣
Hey hypocrites, where were you when NATO bombed Libya? Hell is waiting for you!
IOC doesn’t have a leg to stand on. 🤡
The Nazi minded people are very dangerous and right now they are more and more Nazi minded people. The Olympics were created so countries could compete against each other without having to go to war to band athletes from performing it's a Shameless Act from a Nazi minded person only Hitler did this in history. I have been a Olympian cyclist since 1988 and my coach Pierre Noel Commerie FRANCE QUEBEC was taking by the Nazi during a race in ww2 to be sent to Dachau concentration nazi camp where they hung everybody against the wall until they got to 70 lb.
It was horrific he used to tell us all the details while we were training to keep the pain out the muscles. Leave the athletes alone Nazi minded ones.
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