Russia will have just 15 athletes at the Olympics competing as neutrals - BBC Sport looks at what they can expect at Paris 2024.
That is because athletes from Russia and Belarus will be competing at the Olympics as Individual Neutral Athletes and as well as not being allowed their national flags or anthems, they are also not going to be included in the official medal table.
While Russia has said it was not planning to boycott the Games, its weightlifting federation has cited the "unsportsmanlike selection principle" in guiding its decision to turn down invitations for 10 athletes. Nine of those athletes initially accepted an invitation, according to the IOC. At the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Tokyo 2020 Summer Games, Russians who could prove they were clean competed as ROC , while at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, they competed as OARs .
Also among the 15 Russians to accept an invitation are a further six tennis players, one trampoline gymnast, three canoeists, three road cyclists and one swimmer. He is joined by another trampoline gymnast, three swimmers, two canoeists, two shooters, two rowers, two wrestlers, two weightlifters, one road cyclist and one taekwondo athlete.
"If the IOC's artificial conditions are designed to cut off the best Russian athletes and portray at the Olympics that Russian sport is dying, then you need to decide whether to go there at all," he said.
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