nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20230323-185248-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 230323s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20230323-185248-0 doi eng 342 23 Wiater, Patricia Author aut (orcid)0000-0001-9410-6751 Peaceful and Neutral Games - The Human Rights Perspective on Banning Russian and Belarussian Athletes from International Sports Competitions Wiater, Patricia Verfassungsblog 2023-03-23 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In a statement issued on March 17, 2023, the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) advocated to uphold the current exclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from international competitions. In light of the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris 2024 this topic is currently of great concern to the international sports world. From a human rights perspective, I agree with the core of the DOSB position: the exclusion serves the aims of protecting the rights of Ukrainian athletes and of preventing sporting events from being instrumentalised for war propaganda. These are legitimate reasons for the unequal treatment of Russian athletes. CC BY-SA 4.0 Human Rights IOC Olympics Russian War against Ukraine Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/peaceful-and-neutral-games/ raw object