Overview
- The Russian Olympic Committee, which disclosed Tuesday a new compensation plan, will pay 116 athletes who were barred from the Milano Cortina Winter Games.
- Sports minister and ROC chairman Mikhail Degtyarev said officials aim to restore competition under the flag and anthem and will take cases to court if talks fail.
- The ROC remains suspended by the International Olympic Committee after it added Olympic councils from Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson in October 2023.
- The IOC urged federations to bar Russian and Belarusian athletes in February 2022, then in March 2023 allowed limited individual entry as neutrals with no team events and vetting over war support.
- At the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, 13 Russians competed as neutrals and Nikita Filippov won silver in ski mountaineering, underscoring restricted access and lean medal returns for the group.