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Ben Parsons

Great Britain among 35 countries to demand Russian athletes be banned from Paris Olympics

Great Britain are in "unanimous" agreement with other major Olympic countries that Russian and Belarusian athletes must be banned from the Paris 2024 Games.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is now "exploring a pathway" to allow athletes from Russia and Belarus - whose troops are actively invading Ukraine - to compete under a neutral flag at next summer's Games.

But that move has been slammed by Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, who has claimed the IOC would be showing the globe that 'terror is somehow acceptable' if athletes from the two countries are allowed to compete.

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