Beijing 2022/Paralympic Games: Russians and Belarusians allowed to participate under a neutral flag

"The Russian Paralympic Committee and Belarus Paralympic Committee will participate as neutrals at the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games (04-13/03/2022). Within the parameters of the International Paralympic Committee Handbook, the IPC has taken the strongest possible actions, which are as follows:
• All their athletes/support personnel will participate in an individual capacity as neutral athletes/support personnel.
• They will compete under the Paralympic flag and the Paralympic anthem.
• They will not be included in the medals table."
These are the measures announced by the governing body of the International Olympic Committee (IPC) which met "to discuss how the breach of the Olympic Truce by the Russian and Belarus governments is impacting the Paralympic Games and the wider Paralympic Movement," on 02/03/2022.

"The Olympic Truce, adopted by the UN General Assembly on 02/12/2021 by consensus of all 193 UN Member States, began seven days before the start of the Olympic Games, on 04/02/2022, and ends seven days after the closing of the Paralympic Games (10/03/2022)," explained…