Paralympics-Russian, Belarusian athletes can no longer compete in Beijing Paralympics - IPC

Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be able to compete at the Winter Paralympics in Beijing, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said on Thursday.

"Following a specially convened meeting, the IPC Governing Board has decided to refuse the athlete entries from the RPC and NPC Belarus for the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games," the IPC said in a statement https://www.paralympic.org/news/ipc-decline-athlete-entries-rpc-and-npc-belarus-beijing-2022.

"This means that para-athletes from these respective countries will no longer be allowed to participate in the Games which open on 4 March 2022."