BEIJING, Mar 4, Andrey Simonenko. Russian team not allowed to participate at the Paralympic Games in Beijing, plans to leave the capital of China in the near future, according to a release from the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC). The Winter Paralympics in Beijing starts on March 4. Against the backdrop of events in Ukraine, the International Paralympic Committee on March 2 allowed the Russian team to participate in the Games in a neutral status, but on March 3 changed its mind and denied the Russians the right to participate in the Paralympics, explaining this by the threat of a boycott by a number of other delegations. «Russian Paralympic Committee and its athletes do not currently consider it possible and expedient to remain in Beijing and plan to leave the capital of the Winter Games, the city of wonderful people, in the near future,» the RPC said in a release.
