The International Olympic Committee decision effectively overturns a decade-long ban on Russian athletes from international sport imposed due to a state-sponsored doping scandal and Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
A man walks outside the Russian National Olympic Committee building in Moscow on Tuesday.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has provisionally lifted the suspension of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), opening…
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Olympic body’s decision “completely ruins their own credibility,” Ukrainian Sports Minister Matviy Bidnyi says.
