Overview
- The IOC executive board, which met Thursday, lifted limits on Belarusian athletes and cleared use of their flag, anthem, and national teams.
- Russian athletes remain limited to individual events under a neutral banner and must not have actively supported the war.
- International federations will implement the policy, with World Athletics and biathlon keeping exclusions and judo, swimming, and the Paralympic committee already reinstating athletes.
- The Russian Olympic Committee stays suspended for taking control of bodies in four occupied Ukrainian regions, and Kirsty Coventry said there is no timeline as the IOC legal panel reviews its reinstatement bid.
- The change could allow a full Belarus delegation at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics and the Dolomiti Valtellina Youth Winter Games, with qualification windows due to open this summer.