Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – Will it change the Olympics?
Journal: Journal of Emerging Sport Studies
Year: 2022

The IOC's and IPC's unprecedented ban of Russian and Belarussian athletes and officials from the Winter Paralympics in Beijing following Russia's attack on Ukraine breaks with a long history of accommodating the regimes in Beijing and Moscow. This article explains deflection strategies and policies that the IOC, and especially under its current president Thomas Bach, have deployed to obfuscate criticism and silence opposition. Activist athletes and advocacy groups who have found their moral comp