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IOC’s Bach says Olympics on history’s side in Russia issue

Ukraine's Anastasiia Shepilenko waves at the finish area of an alpine ski, women's World Championships super G, in Meribel, France, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati) Nina Nikiforovа, 80, center, cries as she leaves a church after attending the funeral of her son Volodymyr, 50, a Ukrainian military serviceman who was killed in the east of the country in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Soldiers of the Ukrainian 3rd Army Assault Brigade of the Special Operations Forces (SSO) "Azov" rest in a blindage after night fight near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Libkos) Dmytro Pidruchnyi, of Ukraine, lies on the ground during the Men 10 km Sprint competition at the Biathlon World Championships in Oberhof, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) Nina Nikiforovа, 80, cries next to the body of her son Oleg Kunynets, a Ukrainian military serviceman who was killed in the east of the country, during his funeral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) FILE - Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, and France's President Emmanuel Macron shake hands at the end of a press conference at the Mariyinsky Palace in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, June 16, 2022. The question of if and how Russia competes at the Olympics hangs over the 2024 Paris Summer Games. Just as it has now for five straight Olympics during Thomas Bach’s leadership of the IOC. The Bach-led International Olympic Committee's support this week for some Russians to compete in Paris as neutrals was publicly challenged Friday, Jan. 27, 2023 by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File) Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy poses for a picture before an EU summit at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. On Thursday, Zelenskyy will join EU leaders at a summit in Brussels, which German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described as a "signal of European solidarity and community." (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys) IOC (International Olympic Committee) President Thomas Bach, right, meets the media in the finish area of the alpine ski, men's World Championship downhill, in Courchevel, France, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati) IOC (International Olympic Committee) president Thomas Bach walks in the finish area of the alpine ski, men's World Championship downhill, in Courchevel, France, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati) Ukraine's Ivan Kovbanyusk gets to the finish area after completing an alpine ski, men's World Championship super-G race, in Courchevel, France, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati) FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2014 file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and IOC President Thomas Bach meet in the Bolshoi Ice Dome in Sochi, Russia. The question of if and how Russia competes at the Olympics hangs over the 2024 Paris Summer Games. Just as it has now for five straight Olympics during Thomas Bach's leadership of the IOC. The Bach-led International Olympic Committee's support this week for some Russians to compete in Paris as neutrals was publicly challenged Friday, Jan. 27, 2023 by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service via AP, file)