THE Paris Olympics, better-known as the Paris Summer Games 2024, have opened more questions about the interference of politics in sport.
But then again, every dark cloud, has a silver lining, doesn’t it?
The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (Anoca), representing more than 50 individual national Olympic associations across the continent, has taken umbrage at the continued discrimination against the Russian and Belarusian athletes in world sport.
Organisers of the Paris Olympics, supported by other Western national associations, had made it categorically clear that they would not welcome athletes from both Russia and neighbouring Belarus.
Reason? The conflict in Ukraine. The French, like their allies in the West, have literally treated athletes from the two countries as complicit in Russia’s “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine,
