Is Russia competiting in the Paris Olympics 2024?

More than 200 countries will compete in the Paris Olympic Games this summer - but one country will be noticeably absent.

Russia and Belarus have been banned from competing in the 2024 Games due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Over the last 30 years, Russian athletes have won 546 medals, including 195 Gold, which puts them in third place on the leader board, behind the United States and China.

Despite the country's Olympic Committee being banned from entering a team, Russian and Belarusian athletes will still be taking part in the Paris Games. However, they will not appear on the medal table.

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is permitting the inclusion of “individual neutral athletes” – vetted by a panel – whose restrictions will include competing under a neutral flag and anthem, and neither athletes nor coaches who “actively support” the war will be approved.

Some had criticised the IOC for not going far enough with its restrictions. The IOC’s conditions mean any athlete with links to the military, or who have expressed support for the war, are banned from competing in Paris, but athletes who have received state funding are allowed to compete.

Athletes will not be able to compete in team events, will not compete in Russian colours or under the Russian flag and any medals will not be collated together in a table.

Just 32 individual neutral athletes will be competing in the Games, which is considerably lower than the hundreds of athletes that Russia usually enters.

The IOC is leaving it up to the individual sports to make decisions on whether to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete even as neutrals – World Athletics, for