Daniil Medvedev, Aryna Sabalenka likely to be allowed to compete at Paris Olympics

Daniil Medvedev and Aryna Sabalenka are a step closer to being allowed to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics. On Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) revealed its plans to recommend Russian and Belarusian athletes be allowed to compete at the Games as neutrals.

In February, the IOC said there were plans to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics. In the weeks that followed, the IOC received criticism, with some insisting that just wasn’t right.

But on Tuesday, IOC President Thomas Bach defended their decision. “First of all, what is maybe most important, what has changed, is that participation of athletes with Russian and Belarusian passports in competitions and in international competitions, works.

We see this almost every day in a number of sports. We see it most prominently in tennis, but we see it also in cycling. We see it in some table tennis competitions, we see it in ice hockey, we see it in handball, we see it in football and in other leagues — in the United States, but also in Europe, and we also see it in other continents,” Bach said.