Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Which countries have been banned from participating in the Olympics?
By now, dozens of medals have been won by athletes and teams in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Officially, around 10,500 athletes from 206 states are participating in international sports events, including sport climbing, skateboarding, and surfing. But there are no athletes who represent Russia or Belarus because the two nations are banned due to their involvement in the ongoing war in Ukraine. Instead, 15 athletes from Russia and 18 from Belarus are competing as Athletes Individual Neutral (AIN), without their national flags, anthems, or uniforms. In fact, there have been a handful of states that were banned from participating in the Olympic Games. In the 1920 Antwerp Games, Germany and its allies were excluded because of their involvement in World War I. Germany again was banned in the 1948 London Olympic Games due to its role in World War II along with Japan. South Africa wasn’t allowed to participate in the games from 1964 to 1992 because of its racial segregation policy, the apartheid. When will we see athletes from all the countries in the world compete in the international sports event?
Read the article and learn about how the Olympic Games have been participated.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/26/which-countries-have-been-banned-from-participating-in-the-olympics
Which countries have been banned from participating in the Olympics?
By now, dozens of medals have been won by athletes and teams in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Officially, around 10,500 athletes from 206 states are participating in international sports events, including sport climbing, skateboarding, and surfing. But there are no athletes who represent Russia or Belarus because the two nations are banned due to their involvement in the ongoing war in Ukraine. Instead, 15 athletes from Russia and 18 from Belarus are competing as Athletes Individual Neutral (AIN), without their national flags, anthems, or uniforms. In fact, there have been a handful of states that were banned from participating in the Olympic Games. In the 1920 Antwerp Games, Germany and its allies were excluded because of their involvement in World War I. Germany again was banned in the 1948 London Olympic Games due to its role in World War II along with Japan. South Africa wasn’t allowed to participate in the games from 1964 to 1992 because of its racial segregation policy, the apartheid. When will we see athletes from all the countries in the world compete in the international sports event?
Read the article and learn about how the Olympic Games have been participated.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/26/which-countries-have-been-banned-from-participating-in-the-olympics
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