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Russian athletes 'could be allowed back in Olympcs' says IOC chief

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Russian athletes could be allowed back to compete at Olympic Games, according to IOC chief Thomas Bach, but only if they don't support their country's war in Ukraine. International Olympic Committee president Bach, who won fencing gold for Germany at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, made the comments in an interview with an Italian newspaper published on Friday. “It’s about having athletes with a Russian passport who do not support the war back in competition,” Bach told Italian daily Corriere della Sera, adding, “We have to think about the future.” Most sports followed International Olympic Committee advice in February and banned Russian team and athletes from their events within days of the country’s military invasion of Ukraine.With Russians starting to miss events that feed into qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympics, an exile extending into next year could effectively become a wider ban from those Games.In an interview in Rome, Bach hinted at IOC thinking after recent rounds of calls with Olympic stakeholders asked for views on Russia’s pathway back from pariah status.“To be clear, it is not about necessarily having Russia back,” he said. “On the other hand — and here comes our dilemma — this war has not been started by the Russian athletes.”Bach did not suggest how athletes could express opposition to the war when dissent and criticism of the Russian military risks jail sentences of several years.Some Russian athletes publicly supported the war in March and are serving bans imposed by their sport's governing body.Olympic gold medalist swimmer Evgeny Rylov appeared at a pro-war rally attended by Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Gymnast Ivan Kuliak displayed a pro-military “Z” symbol on his uniform at an international event.Russ

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