Backpedaling by Anne Hidalgo on the presence of Russian athletes at the Paris Olympic Games. The mayor of Paris now says she is opposed to the presence of Russian athletes at the 2024 Olympic Games “as long as there is war” in Ukraine, her entourage said on Tuesday after an interview with France Info.
During a previous interview at the end of January, the mayor of the host city said she was in favor of their participation “under a neutral banner” so as not to “deprive the athletes of their competition”, a compromise which she now considers ” indecent”.