World Aquatics has decided to allow Russian and Belarusian senior athletes to compete in its events under their national flags, with their uniforms and anthems.

For the past three years, they have participated as neutral individual athletes, later being joined by teams.

It is reported that athletes from Russia and Belarus will be allowed to compete only after passing at least four successive anti-doping controls.

Comment from me: Russia remains the aggressor and the country that keeps waging a war and genocide in Ukraine. Russian sports has close ties with Russian politics as has been proven by numerous investigations.