The International Olympic Committee (IOC) remained under fire on Wednesday over possibly admitting Russian and Belarusian athletes to next year’s Paris Olympics but also received backing from United Nations experts. Ukrainian tennis player Elena Svitolina insisted that athletes from the two countries should remain banned in connection with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and ministers from the Baltic states are mulling a joint appeal to the IOC to reconsider its plans. Athletes from the two countries are banned from most major sports events but while continuing sanctions against the two countrie…