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8:50 am: Zelensky furious with the IOC

Volodymyr Zelensky is angry with the IOC. He denounced the “hypocrisy” of the International Olympic Committee which, despite repeated calls from kyiv to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Olympic Games scheduled for Paris, declared on Wednesday “studying” the possibility of authorizing them to participate under neutral banner.

The Ukrainian president has invited the head of the IOC, Thomas Bach, to visit Bakhmout, one of the hottest points of the war “so that he can see with his own eyes that neutrality does not exist”.

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