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Ukraine urges IOC to ban Russia from 2024 Olympics

Aya Ibrahim
March 1, 2023

Ukraine's president has warned that his country would boycott the Paris 2024 Olympics if Russian and Belarusian athletes were allowed to compete. DW's Aya Ibrahim met a Ukrainian woman who lost her brother, a national decathlon champion, to the war.

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Aya Ibrahim
Aya Ibrahim Correspondent, Head of News and Reports, DW Middle East and North Africa@ayakibrahim
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