ENSURING OLYMPIC INTEGRITY: BELARUSIAN ATHLETES UNDER SCRUTINY FOR NEUTRALITY COMPLIANCE

A rigorous verification process has been initiated to assess the compliance of Belarusian athletes, who have received licenses for the 2024 Olympics, with the established criteria of neutrality.

This com­pre­hen­sive ver­i­fi­ca­tion pro­ce­dure, sched­uled to take place from June 4 to August 15, encom­pass­es a thor­ough exam­i­na­tion of the ath­letes’ affil­i­a­tions with secu­ri­ty forces. Addi­tion­al­ly, it involves an exten­sive analy­sis of their social media activ­i­ty and dig­i­tal foot­prints to iden­ti­fy any state­ments or actions in sup­port of mil­i­tary oper­a­tions in Ukraine and oth­er armed con­flicts.

This crit­i­cal project is being exe­cut­ed in col­lab­o­ra­tion with The Belaru­sian Sport Sol­i­dar­i­ty Foun­da­tion (Esto­nia), Glob­al Ath­letes (Cana­da), Ath­letes for Ukraine (Ukraine), and the Open Soci­ety Foun­da­tion (USA). The coor­di­nat­ed efforts of these orga­ni­za­tions under­score the impor­tance of main­tain­ing the integri­ty and eth­i­cal stan­dards of the Olympic Games by ensur­ing that all par­tic­i­pat­ing ath­letes adhere to prin­ci­ples of neu­tral­i­ty and non-par­ti­san­ship.

The Belaru­sian Sports Sol­i­dar­i­ty Foun­da­tion, in part­ner­ship with these esteemed inter­na­tion­al bod­ies, aims to uphold the val­ues of fair­ness and impar­tial­i­ty in sports, reflect­ing a com­mit­ment to the broad­er goals of peace and glob­al sol­i­dar­i­ty.