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The culture secretary, Lucy Frazer, has said the UK will support a continuing ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes in international competition

The IOC is exploring the idea of athletes from Russia and Belarus competing at Paris 2024 as neutrals.

Thousands of basic mobile phones were handed out during the pandemic to help keep track of those being supervised by the probation service, including prisoners temporarily released on licence to reduce overcrowding in prisons

There is increasing pressure on the International Olympic Committee to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from the Paris Games after an emergency summit on Friday

Britain is among those lobbying for an outright ban on individual Russians and Belarusians at the Paris Olympics.

Russian athletes have "no place" at next year's Paris Olympics while their country’s invasion of Ukraine continues, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told a summit of sports officials from about 30 countries Friday. The International Olympic Committee argues it would be discriminatory to exclude Russia and ally Belarus from sports ahead…

Volodymyr Zelensky told more than 30 sports minister on Friday that “terror and Olympism are two opposites” as he stepped up pressure to ban Russian athletes from the Paris 2024 Games.

The IOC said they were "exploring a pathway" for athletes from both Russia and Belarus to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics, but the organisation have been met by big opposition

Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer said ‘we cannot allow Russian athletes to line up alongside Team GB’ at the Paris Games next year.

Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer said ‘we cannot allow Russian athletes to line up alongside Team GB’ at the Paris Games next year.

The IOC is working on a pathway to enable Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete in the French capital.