This Friday the IOC announced that two Russians and two Belarusians were authorised in canoeing, while four Russians were given the green light in judo.

Currently, 20 of the 47 athletes have confirmed their presence, while many others have not yet communicated their response, such as in tennis, where the Russians Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev, world ranked 5 and 6, were invited and In the women's category, the Russian Daria Kasatkina (14th) and the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (3rd) and Victoria Azarenka (16th).

Sabalenka had stated prior to her invitation that she was not planning to attend the Olympic event to focus on her health. Russian Liudmila Samsonova (15th) declined her invitation.

The IOC initially banned athletes from Russia and Belarus, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. After that, the IOC organised the countries’ progressive return to world sport, under a neutral flag and fulfilling a series of conditions.

In order to be authorised to be in Paris 2024, "neutral individual athletes" must first have qualified for the Games and then undergo a double control —by the international federations and the IOC— in which it is determined that they have not actively supported the war in Ukraine and who have no ties to their countries' armies. The Olympic body must still update its list as the qualification phases close.

There will be no Russians nor Belarusians in Athletics since the International Federation (World Athletics) remained firm in its position of total exclusion of representatives of those two countries.

Last March, the IOC estimated that there could be 36 Russians and 22 Belarusians at the Paris Games "according to the most probable scenario" and respectively 55 and 28 "at most”, a presence clearly lower than that of the Tokyo Games where there were 330 Russians and 104 Belarusians.