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Announced a number of months in the past, the primary version of the Summer Friendship Games is deliberate to be held in Moscow and Yekaterinburg subsequent September. The IOC referred to as on the sporting world and the governments invited by Moscow to reject any participation in and help of this occasion.
The International Olympic Committee on Tuesday accused Russia of “politicising sport” by launching its so-referred to as Friendship Games from subsequent September.
The new competitors will compete with the Olympic Games and Russian organisers are additionally planning a winter version.
The IOC, which has authorised the participation of Russian sportsmen and ladies on this 12 months’s Olympics in Paris solely beneath a impartial banner and provided that they didn’t help Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, referred to as on the sporting world and the governments invited by Moscow “to reject any participation in and support of” this occasion, it mentioned in a press release.
Announced a number of months in the past, the primary version of the Summer Friendship Games is “planned to be held in Moscow and Yekaterinburg” subsequent September, the IOC mentioned, with the primary winter version to happen in 2026 in Sochi, venue for the extremely controversial 2014 Winter Olympics.
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These two initiatives are as well as to the latest Games of the Future in Kazan, which mixed conventional disciplines and e-sport, and the BRICS Games which occur in the identical metropolis in June.
Russian authorities declare that “athletes from more than 50 countries” will participate within the latter.
The IOC just isn’t criticising the Russians for creating multi-sport competitions outdoors its aegis since a number of exist already, together with the Commonwealth Games and the Jeux de la Francophonie, however for doing so by way of a “very intensive diplomatic offensive” by direct contacts with governments around the globe.
“To make their purely political motivation even more obvious, they are deliberately circumventing the sports organisations in their target countries,” mentioned the IOC assertion.
“This is a blatant violation of the Olympic Charter and an infringement of the various UN resolutions at the same time.
“It is a cynical attempt by the Russian Federation to politicise sport.”
The IOC has additionally accused Moscow of “total disrespect for the global anti-doping standards and the integrity of competitions”, citing considerations made final week by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in mild of the institutionalised doping on the Sochi Games 10 years in the past.
“This position is reinforced by the fact that Russia’s national anti-doping agency (RUSADA) is currently non-compliant with the code, there is currently no WADA-accredited laboratory in Russia and overall trust in the anti-doping system in Russia remains low,” the IOC mentioned.
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