A few dozen Russian athletes will be at the Paris Summer Games, competing under a neutral flag. But why should they be there at all?
PARIS — Ukrainian athletes who have died during Russia’s invasion have been killed like so many of their countrymen. At home. At work. On the front lines.Others had recorded their athletic prowess in a specifically Ukrainian context. Thirty-year-old track and field athlete Serhii Pronevych ran a marathon in 4 hours and 36 minutes — very slow by Olympic standards, except that he finished the 26.2 miles in 55 pounds of military gear.
Moscow’s maneuvering is not lost on Olympics officials. Russian and Belarusian athletes who have expressed public support for the war are banned from the Paris Games. They, a freestyle wrestler and two-time Olympic champion who carried the Russian team’s flag at the Tokyo Games’ Closing Ceremonies in 2021.
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