Is Russia Participating In The 2024 Olympics. On july 20, the ioc announced that 18 athletes from belarus, which shares a border with russia and ukraine, will not be at the paris olympics. Many of them are instead.

Two countries will be absent from this year’s olympics: More than 10,500 athletes from some 200 countries will participate in the olympic games in paris, but only 15 of them will be from russia.