Beijing Paralympics to Start on Friday — What to Know About the Games amid Ukraine Invasion
“Part of the team is in one place, part is in another. I hope that today we will unite and get to the airport and go to Beijing together,” said Ukrainian Disabled Sports Committee spokesperson Natalia Garach told theBBCon Tuesday. She added, “The team is not in Ukraine. We will not tell where we are.” The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee — as well as the Canadian and British Paralympic committees — have called for athletes from Russia and Belarus to be banned from the Paralympics amid the invasion....