{"id":1331846,"date":"2025-12-11T22:46:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-ioc-has-lifted-some-restrictions-youth-from-russia-and-belarus-are-returning-to-sports\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:46:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:46:03","slug":"the-ioc-has-lifted-some-restrictions-youth-from-russia-and-belarus-are-returning-to-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-ioc-has-lifted-some-restrictions-youth-from-russia-and-belarus-are-returning-to-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"The IOC has lifted some restrictions: youth from Russia and Belarus are returning to sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1271\" data-end=\"1466\"><strong>The International Olympic Committee at the summit in Lausanne decided to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes in youth age categories to participate in international competitions under their own flag.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1468\" data-end=\"1514\"> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/ioc\/news\/olympic-summit-reaffirms-athletes-fundamental-rights-to-access-sport-without-political-interference\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported<\/a> on the official IOC website.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1516\" data-end=\"1947\"> The committee explained that the decision only applies to the youth level, and the application of the rules will depend on each international federation. Summit participants should return the matter to their organizations for further consideration. Such rules will also apply to the 2026 Youth Olympic Games in Dakar. Standard protocols regarding flags, uniforms and anthems will apply if the national federation is in good standing.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1949\" data-end=\"2228\"> The IOC also made a final decision to allow international competitions to be held in Belarus. However, the ban on holding tournaments in Russia remains in force. The statement emphasized that international federations should continue to refrain from organizing sporting events in the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2230\" data-end=\"2602\"> At the same time, the 2023 recommendations for adult athletes remain unchanged: Russians and Belarusians can only participate in international competitions in a neutral status, and team sports are not available to them. Sanctions against the governments of the Russian Federation and Belarus also remain &#8211; official representatives of these countries are prohibited from receiving accreditations and invitations to international sporting events.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2230\" data-end=\"2602\"> As previously reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiyskym-sportsmenam-dozvolyly-vystupaty-na-mizhnarodnykh-zmahanniakh-z-natsionalnoiu-symvolikoiu\/\"><span class=\"s1\">the International Judo Federation announced that Russian athletes will once again compete under their flag and anthem.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Olympic Committee at the summit in Lausanne decided to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes in youth age categories to participate in international competitions under their own flag. This was reported on the official IOC website. The committee explained that the decision only applies to the youth level, and the application of the rules [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1331841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76895],"class_list":["post-1331846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1331841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}