Russia Issues Claim That IPC Ban Will Extend Through 2018 Pyeungchang Games, IPC Denies

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The Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC), who has already been banned from participating in next month’s 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio, stated today on their website that they have also been banned from the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The announcement on their website, which was a part of the IPC’s original press release, reads as follows,

The decision taken by the IPC, upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) regarding Russian paralympians being excluded from the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, has also been extended to include the Winter Games in 2018 in Pyeongchang. 

Reports from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), however, dismiss those claims.

Despite the IPC’s denial many media outlets, including Inside The Games, have reported on the extension of the ban. Since then the IPC has edited the statement “insisting that there was no ban on Russians competing at Pyeongchang 2018.”

With the RPC currently suspended they will have to work with the IPC to regain their membership to ensure that all membership obligations are met. A statement from the IPC continued by stating, “By rule, the Russian Paralympic Committee’s suspension will be lifted immediately following the Governing Board’s determination that the member is once again able to meet its membership obligations in full.”

This means that the RPC wasn’t wrong in their statement that they are banned through the 2018 Pyeungchang Games, as they will have to work to meet IPC standards in order to be reinstated before the 2018 Games.

After the announcement from the IPC that all Russian paralympians would be banned, the country submitted an appeal to the CAS, which was ultimately denied and the ban remains.

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