International Paralympic Committee
Ukraine’s Paralympians Compete in Beijing With Heavy Hearts
ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Valerii Sushkevych, the president of Ukraine’s Paralympic committee, can detect in the pink, swollen eyes of his athletes that they have not been sleeping. He knows they are overwhelmed by worry and fear over the fate of their families and their country, which is under attack by the Russian Army. He sees […]
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Paralympics Reverses Course and Bans Athletes From Russia and Belarus
BEIJING — On Wednesday night, the organizers of the Paralympic Winter Games were resolute that they had no option except to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete. On Thursday afternoon, they were equally resolute when they came to the opposite conclusion. In a stunning reversal, the International Paralympic Committee bowed to heavy internal pressure […]
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Paralympics Will Allow Russian Athletes to Compete
BEIJING — Organizers of the Beijing Winter Paralympics will allow athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete when the Games open this week, despite mounting pressure to exclude Russia and its teams from global sports as punishment for its invasion of Ukraine. The executive board of the International Paralympic Committee, which organizes the Games, declared […]
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