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Paris 2024: “Putin will not be able to glorify his regime”, believes Lucas Aubin, research director at IRIS
The IOC decided on Tuesday March 19 to exclude Russia from the parade for the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games. A coherent decision, according to the former Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu, and the researcher in Sport and geopolitics Lucas Aubin, guests of 19/20 info.
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The IOC decided on Tuesday to exclude Russia from the parade at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games. A coherent decision, according to former Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu, and sports and geopolitics researcher Lukas Aubin, guests of franceinfo.
It will not be possible to see Russian athletes parading on the stage of the opening ceremony of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris on July 26. The IOC (International Olympic Committee) made its decision following an executive commission meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday March 19. This decision revives the debate on the participation of Russian athletes in the Paris Olympics.
Guest of 19/20 info on Tuesday March 19, the former Minister of Sports and swimming champion, Roxana Maracineanu, points out that “the IOC followed what the International Paralympic Committee had already chosen to do”considering that this fits “in the symbolic line of sanctioning Russia as a state” And “in continuity with the rest of the sanctions”.
A strong decision for Russia
A decision that is also consistent according to Lukas Aubin, research director at Iris, in charge of the Sport and Geopolitics Program. “We know that Vladimir Putin has made sport an instrument of power (…) to glorify his regime”he explains, noting that “There, he won’t be able to do it”. “I believe that it is experienced on the Russian side as a humiliation”explains Lucas Aubin, who ensures that “the reactions were quite virulent” Russian side “since last December”following previous sanctions taken against the country.
