二 |     GENEVA -- After nearly 20 months of waging war in Ukraine, Russia was suspended by the IOC on Thursday for a land grab in sports administration.The International Olympic Committee's executive board imposed the suspension on the Russian Olympic Committee for a breach of the Olympic Charter — a book of rules and principles for international sports bodies — by incorporating sports councils in four regions in eastern Ukraine.Russian Olympic officials provoked the dispute last week by accepting the councils in Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia as its members.“(This) unilateral decision,” the International Olympic Committee said in a statement from Mumbai, India, “constitutes a breach of the Olympic Charter because it violates the territorial integrity of the NOC of Ukraine, as recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in accordance with the Olympic Charter.”The suspension does not immediately affect any Russians who are returning to compete in international sporting events as neutral athletes. However, it did suggest rising frustration from the IOC and its president, Thomas Bach, who can ultimately decide to impose a blanket ban on all Russian athletes from next year's Paris Olympics."(The IOC) reserves the right to decide about the participation of individual neutral athletes with a Russian passport in the Olympic Games Paris 2024 and the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 at the appropriate time,” the IOC said.The Russian Olympic Committee criticized the IOC for “another counterproductive decision with obvious political motivations.”However, the IOC under Bach has often been seen as too sympathetic to Russia during a decade-long doping scandal by never excluding all the country's athletes and teams from any Olympics despite proven allegations of state-backed cheating and tampering with evidence.The latest decision by the IOC board comes seven months after it publicly supported Russian athletes by advising governing bodies of Olympic sports to find ways of including them in qualifying events for the Paris Games.That IOC policy to ease a blanket ban was in defiance of calls from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and many Ukrainian athletes to maintain the exclusion of athletes from Russia and Belarus.Those vetting processes by different sports will continue despite the IOC suspension imposed Thursday, which does not affect Belarus.“The suspension of the national Olympic committee doesn’t affect in any way the participation of independent athletes,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said at a news conference after the board meeting.Adams said the Russian Olympic Committee had been informed of its suspension before the IOC announced it publicly.Russia remains excluded from international events in team sports, despite a short-lived and failed attempt this month by European soccer body UEFA to put Russian under-17 teams into qualifying groups for their European Championship.The new ban removes the right of the ROC to get funding from the Switzerland-based IOC, which is worth millions of dollars in each four-year Olympic funding cycle. Russian officials reportedly have been weighing legal action to access the money that was not being paid during the war.The Russian Olympic Committee can challenge the IOC decision at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland.“ROC, as a participant in the international sports movement, reserves the right to protect its own interests, as well as the interests of athletes and organizations of a sovereign country, which we represent in good faith,” the Russian Olympic body said.___AP coverage of the Paris Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games。迫于各界压力，因凡蒂诺已公开致歉，宣布撤回相关方案。但欧足联并未接受因凡蒂诺的道歉。据英国广播公司（BBC）8月6日报道，针对国际足联的最新表态，欧足联当天发表声明回应说，因凡蒂诺的道歉和国际足联官员的辩解“改变不了任何事”，解除抵制国际足联赛事的条件还没有得到满足。声明说：“欧足联各成员已明确说明了有关解除抵制的条件。

三 | 首先，必须撤回出售主要赛事的提议；其次，必须保证此类破坏足球运动的企图不会再次发生。

四 | 这些条件还没有得到满足。”欧足联表示，因凡蒂诺的道歉和国际足联官员的辩护“改变不了任何事”，“欧足联在上周六的声明中非常明确地表示，对因凡蒂诺的领导能力失去了信心，这一立场没有改变。”此外，英格兰足总已经致函国际足联，撤回对因凡蒂诺明年连任国际足联主席的支持。国际足联主席因凡蒂诺 IC photo因凡蒂诺此前计划成立引入私人资本的商业子公司，把世界杯等国际足联核心赛事的商业权益交由该公司运营，引发国际足坛强烈反对。欧足联警告说，如果该方案继续推进，不排除抵制包括世界杯在内的国际足联赛事。因凡蒂诺随后宣布终止这一方案。当地时间8月5日，国际足联在摩洛哥举行会议，承认在这项计划上“犯了错误”，但国际足联官员重申将“全力支持因凡蒂诺”。此前有消息称，欧足联打算通过不信任投票罢免因凡蒂诺，正着手寻找接替他担任国际足联主席的人选。不过，BBC指出，罢免因凡蒂诺的想法不一定能得到足够多的支持。现年56岁的因凡蒂诺，于2016年当选国际足联主席。2019年和2023年，因凡蒂诺均在无竞争对手的情况下连任国际足联主席。下一届国际足联主席选举定于明年3月在摩洛哥拉巴特举行。