{"id":8101,"date":"2024-08-27T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/?p=8101"},"modified":"2024-12-16T16:15:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T16:15:54","slug":"88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udea8 <strong>88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes have been authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games under a neutral flag.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/russian-athletes-supporting-the-war-will-participate-in-the-paris-2024-paralympic-games\/\">However, several of them continue to publicly support the war in Ukraine and the Russian army, which contradicts the values of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udca5 As long as Russian bombs continue to fall on Ukraine, Russian and Belarusian athletes have no place at the Paris Paralympic Games. Stand With Ukraine calls on the IPC to take strong action and exclude athletes who support the criminal Russian regime.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udeab\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddfe For the record, since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia and Belarus have not been excluded from the Olympic and Paralympic Games, but have been allowed to let their athletes compete under a neutral flag, provided they do not support the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine and do not belong to the Russian or Belarusian military. These countries will not have their national anthem or flag. Additionally, Russian and Belarusian parasports athletes will not be allowed to participate in the opening ceremony on the Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es and Place de la Concorde.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd47 Medals won by Russian and Belarusian athletes at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will not be counted on the medal table. In the event of a victory by a neutral athlete, the Paralympic anthem will be played.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34 Nearly 500 Ukrainian athletes and coaches have been killed, and more than 500 sports infrastructures have been destroyed by the Russian aggressor since February 2022. We ask the IPC to uphold the principles of justice and exclude athletes who support the war of aggression in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>#BloodGames2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udea8 88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes have been authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games under a neutral flag. However, several of them continue to publicly support the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-actions-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games - Stand with Ukraine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\ud83d\udea8 88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes have been authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games under a neutral flag.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games - Stand with Ukraine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\ud83d\udea8 88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes have been authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games under a neutral flag.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Stand with Ukraine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-08-27T10:00:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-16T16:15:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Copie-de-COVER-FaceBook-4.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"924\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Daphn\u00e9 Perlade\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Daphn\u00e9 Perlade\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Daphn\u00e9 Perlade\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/fd021a2cb3f2dfaffa2c2e1b926511b8\"},\"headline\":\"88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-27T10:00:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-16T16:15:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/\"},\"wordCount\":272,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Copie-de-COVER-FaceBook-4.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Our actions\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/\",\"name\":\"88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games - Stand with Ukraine\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Copie-de-COVER-FaceBook-4.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-08-27T10:00:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-16T16:15:54+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/fd021a2cb3f2dfaffa2c2e1b926511b8\"},\"description\":\"\ud83d\udea8 88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes have been authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games under a neutral flag.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Copie-de-COVER-FaceBook-4.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Copie-de-COVER-FaceBook-4.png\",\"width\":1640,\"height\":924},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Stand with Ukraine\",\"description\":\"Stand with Ukraine\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/fd021a2cb3f2dfaffa2c2e1b926511b8\",\"name\":\"Daphn\u00e9 Perlade\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f1918c63e455af240b05cc47ed39d257e6135e930a381668077a99babec58fa6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f1918c63e455af240b05cc47ed39d257e6135e930a381668077a99babec58fa6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Daphn\u00e9 Perlade\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/author\/daphne-perlade\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games - Stand with Ukraine","description":"\ud83d\udea8 88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes have been authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games under a neutral flag.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games - Stand with Ukraine","og_description":"\ud83d\udea8 88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes have been authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games under a neutral flag.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/","og_site_name":"Stand with Ukraine","article_published_time":"2024-08-27T10:00:39+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-12-16T16:15:54+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1640,"height":924,"url":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Copie-de-COVER-FaceBook-4.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Daphn\u00e9 Perlade","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Daphn\u00e9 Perlade","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/"},"author":{"name":"Daphn\u00e9 Perlade","@id":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/fd021a2cb3f2dfaffa2c2e1b926511b8"},"headline":"88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games","datePublished":"2024-08-27T10:00:39+00:00","dateModified":"2024-12-16T16:15:54+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/"},"wordCount":272,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Copie-de-COVER-FaceBook-4.png","articleSection":["Our actions"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/","url":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/","name":"88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games - Stand with Ukraine","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Copie-de-COVER-FaceBook-4.png","datePublished":"2024-08-27T10:00:39+00:00","dateModified":"2024-12-16T16:15:54+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/fd021a2cb3f2dfaffa2c2e1b926511b8"},"description":"\ud83d\udea8 88 Russian athletes and 8 Belarusian athletes have been authorized to compete in the Paralympic Games under a neutral flag.","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/88-russian-athletes-and-8-belarusian-athletes-authorized-to-compete-in-the-paralympic-games\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Copie-de-COVER-FaceBook-4.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Copie-de-COVER-FaceBook-4.png","width":1640,"height":924},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/","name":"Stand with Ukraine","description":"Stand with Ukraine","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/fd021a2cb3f2dfaffa2c2e1b926511b8","name":"Daphn\u00e9 Perlade","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f1918c63e455af240b05cc47ed39d257e6135e930a381668077a99babec58fa6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f1918c63e455af240b05cc47ed39d257e6135e930a381668077a99babec58fa6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Daphn\u00e9 Perlade"},"url":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/author\/daphne-perlade\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8110,"href":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8101\/revisions\/8110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.standwithukraineeurope.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}