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The IOC assessed allegations that athletes who participated in protests against the falsification of the results of the August presidential elections were arrested, beaten and tortured.
Furthermore, athletes who publicly expressed an unfavorable opinion about Lukashenko, who is also the president of the Belarusian Olympic Committee, lost their scholarships and other social guarantees.
“The leaders of the Belarusian Olympic Committee did not adequately protect athletes from political discrimination. This is contrary to the fundamental principles of the Olympic Charter and at the same time seriously damages the reputation of the Olympic movement,” said Thomas Bach, IOC President. from Germany.
The IOC Executive Committee has also frozen all payments to Belarus, except those directly related to the participation of its Olympians in the upcoming Games.
Furthermore, the IOC called on all international sports federations “to ensure that all eligible Belarusian athletes can participate in the Olympic qualifiers, regardless of their political affiliation.”
Such a move by the IOC should ultimately lead the International Hockey Federation (IIHF) to deprive Belarus of the right to host the World Cup in 2021.
Minsk had to prepare it together with Latvia, whose representatives stated in the autumn that they no longer intended to cooperate with the Belarusians. Last month there were reports that IIHF leader Rene Fasel would like to move part of the championship from Minsk to the Russian capital Moscow.
Viktor Iukashenko, son of the president and vice president of the Belarusian Olympic Committee, and Dmitry Baskov, head of the Belarusian Hockey Federation, suspected of being involved in the attack on artist Romano Bondarenko, who later died in hospital, were also on the list. of undesirable people from the IOC.
Some Belarusian Olympians have called on the IOC to suspend the entire country’s Olympic Committee, although this would mean that Belarusians could participate in the Tokyo Games only under the Olympic flag.
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