INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Thursday it had suspended Russia's national Olympic body with "immediate effect" for
violating the territorial integrity of Ukraine's membership."The Russian Olympic Committee is no longer entitled to operate as a National
Olympic Committee, as defined in the Olympic Charter, and cannot receive any funding from the Olympic movement," IOC spokesman Mark Adams
said after the opening day of an executive board meeting in Mumbai.Adams said the suspension was in response to the Russian Olympic
February 2022 invasion.Adams said the Russian committee's decision "violates the territorial integrity of the [National Olympic Committee]
of Ukraine, as recognized by the IOC in accordance with the Olympic Charter."He added that the IOC still reserves the right to decide on the
participation of individual athletes from Russia in next year's Paris Games, as well as the 2026 Winter Games in Milan, "at the appropriate
