Former Chelsea and Ukraine football star Andriy Shevchenko has urged the International Olympics Committee (IOC) to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from taking part in next year's Olympics.
The next Olympic Games will take place in Paris in the summer of 2024 but there have been widespread calls to stop Russian athletes from competing amid their conflict with Ukraine - as well as those from Belarus, who are sided with Russia.
And Shevchenko - who managed Ukraine and played 111 times for the national team - has made a plea with the IOC asking them to condemn Russia and president Vladimir Putin's 'aggression' to help end the war.