Paris 2024 Olympics: ANOCA wants Russian, Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals
The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) says it supports the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in all international competitions.
At the end of its 59th ordinary session of its Executive Committee meeting held in Nouakchott, Mauritania, the Association resolves unanimously in favour of the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in all international competitions.
‘It will thus be a question of allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in complete neutrality without any sign of identity in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.’ said ANOCA in the communique issued at the end of the meeting.
”ANOCA has given its agreement to reaffirm that politics cannot put pressure on Sport and withdraw from it all its nobility values which revolve around peace, unity and Solidarity.
The work of Nouakchott takes on a historic stamp in this sense and insists on the lifting of the barriers which must exist between politics and sport.
It recalls that the Athletes must in no case pay the heavy price of a conflict whatever it is and wherever it is.’
