{"id":389402,"date":"2026-07-07T17:13:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389402\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T17:13:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T17:13:32","slug":"ioc-provisionally-lifts-ban-on-russian-olympic-committee-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/389402\/","title":{"rendered":"IOC provisionally lifts ban on Russian Olympic Committee \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/ioc\/news\/ioc-provisionally-lifts-suspension-of-russian-olympic-committee-recommendations-to-ifs-with-regard-to-russian-athletes-participation-no-longer-applicable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">IOC advised Olympic sports bodies<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday to end a three-year program vetting Russians for neutral status ahead of qualifying events for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/tag\/2028-los-angeles-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2028 Los Angeles Olympics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move was expected since the International Olympic Committee advised two months ago that athletes from Belarus, Russia\u2019s military ally in the full military invasion of Ukraine,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/olympics-ioc-belarus-russia-21e5b0368bef2d06c1d41aae2eb2af6a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">should be allowed again<\/a>\u00a0to compete with their full national identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IOC stands in solidarity with the Olympic community of Ukraine, which the Olympic movement has supported since the beginning of the war, and will continue to do so,\u201d the Olympic body said in a statement after a meeting of its executive board.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC eased entry requirements to its own events for Russian athletes and teams while provisionally lifting its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ioc-olympics-russia-suspended-ukraine-0c67668922b0262fbe358e6343b71d0e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">suspension since October 2023<\/a>\u00a0of the Russian Olympic Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The terms of that suspension \u2014 imposed when the Russian Olympic body incorporated regional sports councils from occupied regions of Ukraine \u2014 no longer applied, the IOC said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRussia has been banned from FIFA competitions since 2022, but that may be changing.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Just 32 athletes from Russia and Belarus competed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/tag\/2024-paris-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2024 Paris Olympics<\/a> as approved neutrals, and combined to win five medals. The Russian team had more than 300 athletes at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and won 71 medals.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC did not yet approve letting Russian athletes and teams compete with their flag and anthem. That decision will come \u201cat an appropriate time,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The next Olympic competition is the 2026 Youth Summer Games in Dakar, Senegal opening Oct. 31.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC said to \u201caddress the lack of confidence in the global sporting community relating to the return of Russian athletes to international competition,\u201d those athletes must give multiple doping controls and be part of a recognized testing program.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC said it will continue to \u201cnot organize IOC events in Russia or invite Russian government or state officials to its events.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0IOC advised Olympic sports bodies\u00a0on Tuesday to end a three-year program vetting Russians for neutral status ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[35946,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-389402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-2028-los-angeles-olympics","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}