Western nations may boycott Paris 2024 if Russia is allowed ©Getty Images

The renewed aspiration of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for maintaining "universality" with ideological integration at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games - embracing drug-free athletes from Russia and Belarus uninvolved in Ukraine atrocities - could be spectacularly counter-productive.

Evidence is accumulating that IOC-imagined ethics will become not peaceful leadership but fatal cancer of Paris's long-awaited third Games next year.  

Aware that not only much of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - Ukraine themselves anxious candidates - but indeed world equilibrium is under threat from Russian President Vladimir Putin's demonic empire lust, Western nations are known to be considering a boycott of Paris 2024 rather than competing against an alien state.  

Fourteen effective neighbours of Ukraine were among the top 45 medal-winning nations at Tokyo 2020, winning a third of 900 medals. 

"The plan to devise acceptable conditions for inclusion of Russian athletes is far too early, Ukraine’s allies indeed all of Europe, is wholly justified in their concern," affirmed Gerhard Heiberg, veteran retired Norwegian IOC member and industrialist, who masterminded Lillehammer's Winter Games of 1994.

Retired Norwegian IOC Member Gerhard Heiberg said
Retired Norwegian IOC Member Gerhard Heiberg said "conditions for inclusion of Russian athletes is far too early" ©Getty Images

"More information is needed on Putin and his military leaders, still formidably aggressive.  

"It is much too soon for leaders of the Olympic Council of Asia to be investigating possible loopholes for Russian integration.  

"Yes, neighbours of Ukraine may well resort to boycott.  

"The West should lie low for the moment and not venture in this false direction.  

"Putin is obsessed with sporting triumph that Russia's exclusion from Paris might force his hand in concluding rampant terrorism."

At the Olympic Summit last year, the IOC and its President Thomas Bach encouraged a proposal by the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) to enable athletes from Russia and Belarus to participate in its qualifying events for Paris 2024.

Norway has conspicuously been the contemporary ethical flag of Olympism, seeking financial rationality of any Games, yet sadly self-destructed - through internal political confusion - when being the outstanding bid for the Winter Games of 2022, thereby opening the door for Beijing's technically excellent but socially corrupt Chinese festival.

The IOC and President Thomas Bach encouraged a proposal by the OCA to enable athletes from Russia and Belarus to participate in its qualifying events for Paris 2024 at the Olympic Summit ©Getty Images
The IOC and President Thomas Bach encouraged a proposal by the OCA to enable athletes from Russia and Belarus to participate in its qualifying events for Paris 2024 at the Olympic Summit ©Getty Images

Alarm in Paris is on full alert.  

Alain Lunzenfichter, doyen Olympic commentator for French sports daily L’Equipe, is shrill in his condemnation.

"The IOC’s attitude is not intellectual… it’s crazy, this plan would kill the Paris Games," he said.

"Our ambition could instead become not the Olympic Games, but the War Games.  

"The Olympics do not need Russia, not when we consider the horrors in Ukraine."  

For the moment, Tony Estanguet, multiple canoe Olympic champion and President of Paris 2024, , is holding his tongue, awaiting IOC reconsideration.   

Craig Reedie, director of the London 2012 Organising Committee and former President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), added his disapproval for the IOC "sanitation".

"Thomas is well aware of my view on what is not a wise direction," he said.  

Several months ago, fellow IOC senior retiree from Canada, Dick Pound, emphasised this principle: that illegal nations are unwelcome.  

Following World War II, Germany and Austria were suspended from Antwerp's Olympics of 1920, likewise Germany and Japan from London 1948.