Russia may come out of isolation in international sport, the New York Times reports

Russia may be able to emerge from the boycott in international sport.

This is reported by The New York Times, citing a decision by the International Olympic Committee in Milan.

IOC delegates expressed readiness to accept and welcome Russia back into major competitions.

Thus, IOC president Kirsty Coventry said that sport should remain a neutral platform, while Johan Eliasch, head of the International Ski Federation, called for developing clearer principles for excluding countries from competitions, taking into account other conflicts in the world.

Earlier this week, Gianni Infantino, the head of FIFA, said that his organization’s ban on Russian teams participating in competitions should be lifted because it “achieved nothing.”

“Boycotts have never solved anything, and only the athletes are punished,” said Andrew Parsons, head of the executive board of the Paralympic Games, The New York Times writes.

As a reminder, Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha called FIFA’s president a “moral degenerate” for urging the lifting of the ban on Russian teams in international tournaments. In addition, Infantino has been added to the database of the Ukrainian website Myrotvorets. He is accused there of involvement in acts of “humanitarian aggression” against Ukraine, as well as in “information and propaganda provocations.”