The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has put ahead an inventory of Russian and Belarusian athletes that shall be eligible to compete on the 2024 Olympic 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 Team ADQ’s Alena Ivanchenko who all have Russian passports. Belarusian Hanna Tserakh, who rides with BTC City Ljubljana Zhiraf Ambedo, was additionally named among the many Individual Neutral 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. However, the choice was made to permit certified athletes chosen by the IOC and their International Federations to compete as Individual impartial athletes, a transfer adopted by the UCI in the case of World Championships, World Cups, Nations Cups and different UCI occasions.
An Individual Neutral Athlete Eligibility Review 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 help personnel. Quite a lot of situations had been outlined in an IOC assertion on the foundations in December, together with that athletes who actively help the struggle won’t be eligible to be entered or to compete and that athletes who’re contracted to the Russian or Belarusian army or nationwide safety companies won’t be eligible to be entered or to compete.
“The Panel was ready to learn from new info from varied sources, specifically official lists of athletes affiliated with sports activities golf equipment of the army and the safety forces printed on official web sites in Russia and Belarus,” stated the IOC in its assertion.
The athletes named had been unfold throughout quite a few 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 total quota was crammed.
The highway biking occasions on the Paris Olympic Games begin on Saturday, July 27 with the time trials and the lads’s highway race will happen per week afterward August 3 with the ladies’s the day after on August 4. The most quota of riders for the highest 5 qualifying nations within the highway race is 4.
The males’s highway race shall be 273km lengthy, with 2800m of elevation achieve amassed over repeated efforts on small climbs whereas the ladies’s race has 1,700m of elevation achieve over 158km.
