WARSAW (Reuters) – Creating a team of refugees which would allow some Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete could be the basis of a compromise on the question of banning these countries from the games, the Polish sports minister said on Friday.
“It may be a compromise for the IOC (International Olympic Committee) to create a team of refugees, which could include people of Russian and Belarusian nationality who are dissidents,” Kamil Bortniczuk told a news conference.
(Reporting by Alan Charlish, Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk, Pawel Florkiewicz)
