The Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) has put ahead a listing of Russian and Belarusian athletes that might be eligible to compete on the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris, which incorporates 4 highway cyclists.
The riders who’re eligible to race the highway biking occasions embrace Bora Hansgrohe’s Aleksandr Vlasov, Roland’s Tamara Dronova and UAE Group ADQ’s Alena Ivanchenko who all have Russian passports. Belarusian Hanna Tserakh, who rides with BTC Metropolis Ljubljana Zhiraf Ambedo, was additionally named among the many Particular person Impartial Athletes (IANs).
Russian and Belarusian athletes, groups, and occasions have been the topic of UCI sanctions since March 1, 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine with the help of Belarus. Nonetheless, the choice was made to permit certified athletes chosen by the IOC and their Worldwide Federations to compete as Particular person impartial athletes, a transfer adopted by the UCI with regards to World Championships, World Cups, Nations Cups and different UCI occasions.
An Particular person Impartial Athlete Eligibility Overview Panel (AINERP) was set as much as consider the eligibility of every athlete with a Russian or Belarusian passport in March 2024, in addition to their assist personnel. Numerous circumstances had been outlined in an IOC assertion on the foundations in December, together with that athletes who actively assist the warfare is not going to be eligible to be entered or to compete and that athletes who’re contracted to the Russian or Belarusian navy or nationwide safety companies is not going to be eligible to be entered or to compete.
“The Panel was able to profit from new info from numerous sources, particularly official lists of athletes affiliated with sports activities golf equipment of the navy and the safety forces revealed on official web sites in Russia and Belarus,” stated the IOC in its assertion.
The athletes named had been unfold throughout numerous sports activities, together with gymnastics, weightlifting and wrestling, whereas Taekwondo was additionally included however regardless of there being 4 quota locations for athletes with a Russian passport and one for athletes with a Belarusian passport no athletes had been declared eligible. In biking the complete quota was stuffed.
The highway biking occasions on the Paris Olympic Video games begin on Saturday, July 27 with the time trials and the boys’s highway race will happen per week in a while August 3 with the ladies’s the day after on August 4. The utmost quota of riders for the highest 5 qualifying nations within the highway race is 4.
The lads’s highway race might be 273km lengthy, with 2800m of elevation achieve collected over repeated efforts on small climbs whereas the ladies’s race has 1,700m of elevation achieve over 158km.
