A gold medal was finally won at the Paris Olympics by one of the neutral collective of athletes. It was exactly one week after thousands of athletes sailed through the opening ceremony. Men's trampoline gold medalist Ivan Litvinovich was barred from boarding a boat on the River Seine. just like all 32 athletes from Russia and Belarus.
Ivan Litvinovich of the Individual Neutral Athletes competes during the men’s trampoline finals in Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, in Paris , France. Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya of Individual Neutral Athletes celebrates after winning the silver medal during the women’s trampoline finals in Bercy Arena at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, in Paris , France.
These are the Olympic rules of engagement for the 32 athletes who were vetted and approved — and accepted their invitations — to come to France and compete for the team-that’s-not-a-team. It was Feb. 24, 2022, that Russia invaded, four days after the Beijing Winter Games closed and still in the Olympic Truce period Russian diplomats had signed up to at the United Nations.
Russians did keep on competing abroad in individual sports, like tennis and cycling. As qualifying events for the Paris Olympics approached, the IOC eased its advice — against Ukrainian pleas — to encourage governing bodies toward reintegrating some athletes.: No Russian or Belarusian teams, which by definition represent a nation, but invite selected athletes.
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