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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sean Ingle

Russia’s Olympic Committee suspended by IOC for violations against Ukraine

The Russian Olympic Committee headquarters
Russia’s Olympic Committee has been suspended for violating the territorial integrity of the Ukrainian Olympic Committee. Photograph: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images

Russia’s Olympic Committee has been suspended for violating the Olympic charter with “immediate effect and until further notice” after it incorporated sports bodies from four territories annexed from Ukraine.

The suspension was announced by the International Olympic Committee as a response to Russia’s decision to recognise Olympic councils from the occupied regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia last week.

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