{"id":79200,"date":"2026-02-19T22:29:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hosts-italy-voice-absolute-opposition-to-russia-flag-flying-at-winter-paralympics\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:29:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:59:55","slug":"hosts-italy-voice-absolute-opposition-to-russia-flag-flying-at-winter-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/hosts-italy-voice-absolute-opposition-to-russia-flag-flying-at-winter-paralympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hosts Italy voice \u2018absolute opposition\u2019 to Russia flag flying at Winter Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1318c79e9b9228b281f30c3f58226d566ffee354\/346_0_5000_4000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=45f8c9221d7372967f91dec6053d367f\" alt=\"Hosts Italy voice \u2018absolute opposition\u2019 to Russia flag flying at Winter Paralympics\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">Sports<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Hosts Italy voice \u2018absolute opposition\u2019 to Russia flag flying at Winter Paralympics<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Italian government urges IPC to reconsider its stanceRussian and Belarusian athletes to compete under flagsItaly, the Winter Olympic hosts, has called for a reversal of the decision to let 10 Russian and Belarusian athletes compete with national flags and anthems at next month\u2019s Paralympic Games.The foreign minister Antonio Tajani and sports minister Andrea Abodi urged the International Paralympic Committee to reconsider its stance due to Russia\u2019s four-year-old invasion of Ukraine, saying it contradicted the Olympic spirit. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/19\/winter-paralympics-italy-absolute-opposition-russia-belarus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Hosts Italy voice \u2018absolute opposition\u2019 to Russia flag flying at Winter Paralympics Italian government urges IPC to reconsider its stanceRussian and Belarusian athletes to compete under flagsItaly, the Winter Olympic hosts, has called for a reversal of the decision to let 10 Russian and Belarusian athletes compete with national flags and anthems at next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":79201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}