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The thought of bumping into a Russian at the Paris Olympics makes Ukrainian hurdler Anna Ryzhykova shudder. “I can’t even imagine the anger, how I will hold back, how to look at them,” she said ahead of the July 26-August 11 Games. Like many of her compatriots, Ryzhykova is pained that athletes from Russia and Belarus are not completely excluded from the Summer Games in the French capital despite the war against Ukraine that has been raging for more than two years. But Russia is also looking at the Olympics with anger. The admission requirements of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) are…

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