INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian cyclist Alexander Vlasov has turned down the chance to participate in the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris due to his "very busy
Committee (IOC) over the weekend to compete in the games under a neutral flag.The IOC suspended Russia from the 2024 Games last year but
gave the green light for its athletes to compete as neutrals as long as they did not actively support the Kremlin's war on Ukraine."The
profile of the Paris track doesn't suit him," the head of the Russian Cycling Federation, Vyacheslav Ekimov, told the state-run TASS news
"And the athlete has a very busy calendar."Vlasov won the 2022 Tour of Romandie and came fourth in the 2021 Giro d'Italia.Fourteen Russians
were included on the IOC's initial list of "Individual Neutral Athletes" eligible to compete in the Paris Games
More than half were wrestlers and the others were from trampoline gymnastics and road cycling.The athletes had to qualify for the games and
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