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Daily Mirror
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Fraser Watson

GB Paralympian claims Russian athletes have sent Ukrainian rivals 'bomb' threat messages

A Team GB Paralympian has alleged members of the banned Russian team have been taunting Ukrainian athletes over their country being invaded.

On Thursday morning, International Paralympic Committee [IPC] President Andrew Parsons announced that organisers of the Winter Games had performed a major u-turn on its stance on Russian and Belarusian entrants.

Having initially ruled both countries could send competitors to compete as neutrals in Beijing, Parsons responded to widespread condemnation of that call by confirming both nations would now be subject to a blanket ban.

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