The International Olympic Committee will allow some individual athletes from Russia and Belarus to compete as neutral athletes at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in February.

The IOC will use the same criteria as it did at the Paris Summer Olympics in 2024, where qualified individual athletes from those two countries were screened by a panel. Thirty two Russian or Belarusian athletes from 10 different sports were approved to compete as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN) in Paris.

Teams of Russian or Belarusian athletes will not be allowed to compete.

"We fully believe in how things were delivered in Paris," IOC president Kirsty Coventry told reporters on Friday from Italy, where Olympic officials toured several venues and held executive board meetings this week. "We had the discussion

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