{"id":44933,"date":"2022-12-15T20:01:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T17:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/foundation-urges-us-olympic-committee-to-back-belarus-athletes-filtering\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"foundation-urges-us-olympic-committee-to-back-belarus-athletes-filtering","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/44933\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation urges US Olympic committee to back Belarus athletes filtering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>December 15, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> The Belarusian Sports Solidarity Foundation (BSSF) has urged the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) to support special criteria for allowing&nbsp;Belarusian and Russian athletes to compete at&nbsp;the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p> The BSSF proposes&nbsp;\u201ca special process of verification\u201d for the \u201cparticipation of Belarusian and Russian athletes in competitions in neutral status.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> These criteria would restrict the participation of \u201cathletes who do not share universal human values,\u201d openly supporting Russia\u2019s military aggression in Ukraine and the political crackdown in Belarus, the foundation said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bssfbel\/status\/1603374890798977025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">open letter<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> On December 12, USOPC Chair Susanne Lyons told <span>The Wall Street Journal<\/span> that Belarusian and Russian athletes should be allowed to compete in the 2024 Summer Olympics in neutral status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 15, BPN. The Belarusian Sports Solidarity Foundation (BSSF) has urged the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) to support special criteria for allowing&nbsp;Belarusian and Russian athletes to compete at&nbsp;the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. The BSSF proposes&nbsp;\u201ca special process of verification\u201d for the \u201cparticipation of Belarusian and Russian athletes in competitions in neutral status.\u201d These [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-44933","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","rubric-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Foundation urges US Olympic committee to back Belarus athletes filtering | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 15, BPN. 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