Russian athletes at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics will not be able to represent their country even if a peace deal is reached with Ukraine, International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry said in an Italian newspaper interview. At this stage nothing would change the Committee\u2019s decision allowing Russian athletes to take part in the February games only as individuals representing themselves, Coventry told Corriere della Sera in an interview published on Friday. The IOC banned Russia and Belarus following the former\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and the IOC ruled in September that Russians and Belarusians competing at Milano Cortina would do so as individual athletes, without a national flag or anthem. In other remarks, Coventry \u2014 the IOC\u2019s first woman president \u2014 said holding the Olympics in multiple cities, as Italy is doing, would become \u201cthe new normality\u201d and the Milano Cortina games would provide useful guidance for the future. The IOC did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for confirmation of Coventry\u2019s comments. The Milano Cortina games run from February 6 to 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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