This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Olympic ban for Russia, Belorussia & their athletes or withdraw TeamGB
Immediately add the UK weight behind calls for the IOC to ban the national team of Russia and Belorussia from the Olympics and that their athletes should not compete under a neutral barrier.
Make clear that if the IOC does not ban those nations and athletes that TeamGB will be withdrawn.
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It is unacceptable for a Ukrainian athlete, representing their proud country, to have to compete against a nation state’s athletes when that state is occupying their country whilst killing their neighbours and countrymen at home.
Russian and Belorussian athletes are not ‘nuetral’. They are funded by a national machinery that is a engaged in illegal war needlessly killing thousands.
Russian and Belorussian athletes can renounce their aggressor country and compete under the refugee status.
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