PARIS, March 13 — The decision on whether Russian athletes should compete in the Paris Olympics is the biggest headache facing organisers 500 days out from the opening ceremony,...
PARIS, March 13 — The decision on whether Russian athletes should compete in the Paris Olympics is the biggest headache facing organisers 500 days out from the opening ceremony, former senior IOC officials have told AFP.
Payne, who in nearly two decades at the IOC was credited with negotiating sponsorship deals that vastly improved the body’s finances, believes IOC President Thomas Bach is conducting “a very effective consultation process” on the Russian athletes’ conundrum. “The IOC will be seriously challenged to balance its mission with the circumstances of summer 2024,” said the 64-year-old Irishman.“Heaven forbid a repeat of Melbourne 1956 where the story became the water polo match between Hungary and the Soviet Union.”
“The IOC haven’t made a decision yet and they have about a year for things to either get better, or worse.” “But I cannot see a boycott happening. It’s a great soundbite for politicians, American or British, shouting boycott when sporting bodies are saying that is not the mission.”Hugh Robertson, the minister responsible for delivering the London Games in 2012, says Russia is one issue Paris Games president Tony Estanguet does not need to have sleepless nights over.
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