The IOC suspended Russia from the 2024 Games last year, but gave the green light for its athletes to compete as neutrals International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach at the opening of the executive board meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. AP Moscow’s criticism of Olympic restrictions on Russian athletes was beyond unacceptable and had reached a “new low”, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said Wednesday. “It goes beyond anything that is acceptable. To link the president (Germany’s Thomas Bach), his nationality and the Holocaust in the context of this issue reaches a new low,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said. Advertisement...