{"id":548601,"date":"2026-06-05T17:08:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=548601"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T14:23:44","slug":"international-cycling-union-lifts-restrictions-on-belarusian-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/international-cycling-union-lifts-restrictions-on-belarusian-athletes","title":{"rendered":"International Cycling Union Lifts Restrictions on Belarusian Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The International Cycling Union (UCI) has <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.ctfassets.net\/761l7gh5x5an\/2hOvrYP5aggXXHj2dzh9f3\/05a885e9812bd9592f26ba8a86ab0c31\/2026_AD_HOC_RULES_-_AMENDMENTS_TO_REGULATIONS_IN_FORCE_AS_OF_01_07_2026.pdf\">lifted<\/a> restrictions on Belarusian athletes. From July 1, they will be allowed to compete in individual and team events under the UCI&#8217;s authority while representing Belarus under the national flag and anthem.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the UCI is maintaining restrictions on Russian cyclists. They will continue to compete under neutral status.<\/p>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee had previously recommended that sports federations lift restrictions on Belarusian athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Cycling Union (UCI) has lifted restrictions on Belarusian athletes. From July 1, they will be allowed to compete in individual and team events under the UCI&#8217;s authority while representing Belarus under the national flag and anthem. At the same time, the UCI is maintaining restrictions on Russian cyclists. They will continue to compete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":548600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a22dbf428761.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"International Cycling Union Lifts Restrictions on Belarusian Athletes"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}