- Sponsors urged to pressure IOC over proposals to ease ban
- ‘Sport and politics in Russia and Belarus are heavily intertwined’
The government has written to the Olympic Games’ biggest sponsors urging them to put pressure on the IOC over its proposals to allow Russian and Belarusians to compete again in international sport and the Paris 2024 Games.
In a highly unusual move, the culture secretary, Lucy Frazer, has also asked the UK chief executives of the IOC’s worldwide partners – including Coca-Cola, Intel, Samsung and Visa – to press the IOC over a number of significant concerns it has over the potential easing of the ban.
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/mar/11/uk-government-takes-fight-over-russian-athletes-ban-to-olympic-sponsors under the title “UK government takes fight over Russian athletes’ ban to Olympic sponsors”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
