Neutrality of the Olympic Movement against recent developments in sport and geopolitics : need of reconceptualisation
Journal: Gutenberg Open Science
Year: 2024

The Olympic Movement’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine underlines an existing dilemma on political neutrality and how the governance of sport has struggled to come to terms with the principle of political neutrality. The status of Russian and Belarussian athletes and teams in international sports is an ongoing disputative matter for the governance of sport. This paper aims to contribute to conceptional clarity concerning the principle of political neutrality and to spell out a specif