{"id":1362093,"date":"2026-02-24T17:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/finland-will-boycott-the-opening-of-the-paralympics-together-with-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T17:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:45:18","slug":"finland-will-boycott-the-opening-of-the-paralympics-together-with-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/finland-will-boycott-the-opening-of-the-paralympics-together-with-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland will boycott the opening of the Paralympics together with Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"779\" data-end=\"939\"><strong>Finland will skip the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games in protest against the participation of representatives of Russia and Belarus under their flags.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"941\" data-end=\"975\"> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/sportsuspilne\/14106\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> Suspilne Sport.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"977\" data-end=\"1198\"> The head of the Finnish Paralympic Committee, Sari Rautio, said that the country wants to give its athletes the opportunity to compete at the Games, but at the same time must express a position on the decisions of the International Paralympic Committee.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1200\" data-end=\"1421\"> &#8220;The minimum we can do is express our position on the decisions of the International Paralympic Committee regarding Russian athletes by skipping the opening ceremony, as Ukraine asked us to,&#8221; Rautiou noted.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1423\" data-end=\"1483\"> The Czech Republic had previously joined the boycott of the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1485\" data-end=\"1721\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> The 2026 Winter Paralympic Games will be held from March 6 to 15 in Milan and Cortina d&#8217;Ampezzo, Italy. Suspilne Sport will act as the exclusive broadcaster of the Paralympics in Ukraine, but will not show the opening ceremony due to the boycott. <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/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=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland will skip the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games in protest against the participation of representatives of Russia and Belarus under their flags. This is reported by Suspilne Sport. The head of the Finnish Paralympic Committee, Sari Rautio, said that the country wants to give its athletes the opportunity to compete at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1362073,"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-1362093","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\/1362093","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=1362093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1362073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}