War in Ukraine: FIBA and UCI suspend Russian teams, following IOC recommendations

• "Russian and Belarusian national teams and/or national selections are not authorised to take part in any events on the UCI international calendar, with immediate effect.
• UCI Team status is withdrawn from all teams under Russian or Belarusian nationality and the UCI shall not consider any further applications for UCI status from teams from these two countries (notably including UCI ProTeam Gazprom-RusVelo, RUS).
• The UCI withdraws all Russian and Belarusian events from the 2022 international calendar. Russian and Belarusian National Championships are also withdrawn from the international calendar.
• Russian and Belarusian licence-holders are authorised to take part in events with their respective teams provided they are registered with a UCI Team that is neither Russian nor Belarusian."
These are the main measures taken by the International Cycling Union (UCI) following an extraordinary session of the body's management committee on 01/03/2022, thus implementing the decisions taken by the IOC on 28/02/2022.

"In line with the IOC executive board resolution and its reasons, FIBA…