{"id":45781,"date":"2023-02-20T17:50:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/international-olympic-committee-harassed-belarusian-athletes-can-use-refugee-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"international-olympic-committee-harassed-belarusian-athletes-can-use-refugee-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/45781\/","title":{"rendered":"International Olympic Committee: harassed Belarusian athletes can use refugee scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>February 20, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has clarified whether it is possible for Belarusian athletes to participate in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAthletes can [\u2026] benefit from a Refugee Athlete Scholarship. In order to be eligible for a scholarship and to be selected as part of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team, an athlete needs to be recognized as a refugee in their country of domicile,\u201d the committee told <span>BPN <\/span>in an email. <\/p>\n<p> The IOC recalled that in March 2021, sanctions were imposed on members of the Belarus Olympic Committee over infringements of athletes\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n<p> The IOC said it \u201chas been in regular contact with the Belarusian Sport Solidarity Foundation (BSSF) and the administration of the NOC of Belarus to try to address any specific issues affecting athletes and members of the Olympic community in Belarus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> On January 25, the IOC\u2019s Executive Board confirmed sanctions against Belarus and Russia introduced earlier over Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine and Belarusian authorities\u2019 complicity in it.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the IOC leadership stressed that no athlete should be \u201cprevented from competing just because of their passport.\u201d It announced \u201cindividual checks\u201d for all athletes and said it would allow Belarusians and Russians to compete only in a neutral status, even if they declare antiwar positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 20, BPN. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has clarified whether it is possible for Belarusian athletes to participate in the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. \u201cAthletes can [\u2026] benefit from a Refugee Athlete Scholarship. In order to be eligible for a scholarship and to be selected as part of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"template":"","rubric":[16],"class_list":["post-45781","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>International Olympic Committee: harassed Belarusian athletes can use refugee scholarship | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"February 20, BPN. 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