{"id":1434815,"date":"2026-09-02T12:15:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/?p=1434815"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:15:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T09:15:34","slug":"fiba-lifts-restrictions-on-russian-and-belarusian-basketball-players-national-teams-suspended-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/fiba-lifts-restrictions-on-russian-and-belarusian-basketball-players-national-teams-suspended-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"FIBA lifts restrictions on Russian and Belarusian basketball players: national teams suspended for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"133\" data-end=\"390\"><strong>The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has lifted restrictions on Russian and Belarusian players, coaches, referees, commissioners and other officials. They can now participate in competitions under the organization&#8217;s auspices<\/strong> .<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"392\" data-end=\"566\">The corresponding decision <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fiba.basketball\/en\/news\/fiba-executive-committee-sets-sights-on-fiba-womens-basketball-world-cup-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was made by<\/a> the FIBA Executive Committee.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"392\" data-end=\"566\">The organization explained that it complies with the decisions of the International Olympic Committee of May 7 and July 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"568\" data-end=\"811\">Restrictions have been lifted in both basketball and 3&#215;3 basketball. Russian and Belarusian athletes can compete in FIBA tournaments, and officials can be appointed to compete. The decision came into effect immediately.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"815\" data-end=\"1003\">&#8220;Russian and Belarusian players may participate in all FIBA competitions, and officials may be appointed to participate in them, effective immediately,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1005\" data-end=\"1240\">At the same time, the national teams of Russia and Belarus are not yet allowed to participate in international competitions. FIBA plans to consider the issue of their return at a meeting of the Central Council in December 2026.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1242\" data-end=\"1379\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">In particular, the Russian and Belarusian national teams remain suspended from international competitions following the start of Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1242\" data-end=\"1379\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">It was previously reported that<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/olimpiyskyy-komitet-rosii-vidnovyly-u-pravakh-mok-ukhvalyv-nove-rishennia\/\">the International Olympic Committee (IOC) temporarily renewed the membership of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), which was suspended on October 12, 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1242\" data-end=\"1379\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) has lifted restrictions on Russian and Belarusian players, coaches, referees, commissioners and other officials. They can now participate in competitions under the organization&#8217;s auspices . The corresponding decision was made by the FIBA Executive Committee. The organization explained that it complies with the decisions of the International Olympic Committee of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1434812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76895],"class_list":["post-1434815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434815","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434816,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434815\/revisions\/1434816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1434812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}