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IOC bans Belarus president Lukashenko from Games - Stabroek News

BERLIN, (Reuters) - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has been banned from attending the Olympic Games as head of his country’s National Olympic Committee (NOC) as part of provisional sanctions imposed by the International Olympic Committee yesterday.

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