The decision to ban the entire Russian team contrasts the treatment of the Russian Olympic team during the 2016 Summer Olympics, whose members could compete if they were allowed by their sport's respective governing body.

[1] On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for four years, after it was found that data provided by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency had been manipulated by Russian authorities with a goal of protecting athletes involved in its state-sponsored doping scheme.

[5] After boycott threats from other nations, the IPC on 3 March 2022 banned Russian athletes from competing entirely.

[8] On 29 September 2023, the IPC decided to continue to partially suspend both the Russian and Belarusian NPCs for two years.

Their athletes and their support personnels may participate at the Paralympic Games under individual and neutral capacities.