Russian and Belarusian athletes can have hopes to compete at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, but only under a neutral flag, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach said on Friday. The mission is to bring together athletes from all over the world, “especially when their countries are in conflict,” Bach said during a press briefing in the German town of Oberhof. “The principle that has been laid down is: No Russian or Belarusian athletes,” Bach explained, but “individual, neutral athletes from these countries without any identification with their nationality” could “possibly…