Is Russia Participating In The 2024 Olympics. While russia and belarus will not receive formal invitations, the international olympic committee says it will not stop athletes from the two countries from participating as. Russian participation in the paris 2024 olympics cannot be covered up with pretend neutrality or a white flag, ukraine president volodymr zelensky says.
For the 2024 olympic games in paris, the ioc banned russia and belarus from participating due to their involvement related to the war in ukraine. Russia is fielding just 15 athletes, a result of ongoing penalties for past doping violations as well as russia’s ongoing war in ukraine.