In the Paris-OS, some athletes from Russia and Belarus competed under a neutral flag.
A model that Johan Eliasch, chairman of the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (Fis), supports and wants to see in the future, writes Radiosporten.
It worked very well with Belarusian and Russian athletes. It's important to have neutrality in these matters, says the Swedish-Briton, who is running to become the new chairman of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after Thomas Bach.
Athletes are not responsible for where they were born and they should not be caught in the middle.
Eliasch wants to see the same conditions as applied in France: neutral flag, no national anthem, no connections to armies, police or similar.
After the invasion of Ukraine, athletes from Russia or Belarus are not allowed to participate in several sports.
