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Originally Posted by Geeoff
This ruling makes no sense. Everyone will know the neutral athletes are Russian...
Unless it comes with measures preventing Russia's Olympic committee from being involved with the athletes? Russian TV will probably just show them as Russian.
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Probably has financial implications as well. Russia may not be technically allowed to 'sponsor' athletes to go compete who are playing for the neutral team...although I'm sure that would be difficult to enforce practically.