The Olympic Charter spells out pretty plainly what the expectations are for participants, and they are very much against any public display of protest on Olympic grounds. "No kind of demonstration ...

According to rule 8 of the Olympic Charter, the five interlaced rings of the Olympic symbol represent the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes at the games. There could be four ...

Since the 1955 Olympic Charter, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has sought to govern demonstrations and protest at the Games, which is now known as Rule 50 in its bylaws. While the ...

when the board determined that Russia had breached the Olympic charter by violating the "territorial integrity" of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine. Athletes with Russian or Belarusian ...

The bylaws of Rule 41 in the Olympic Charter say an athlete who has citizenship in two or more countries at the same time can select which country to represent. However, there are rules limiting ...

saying that the country's National Olympic Committee is in line with the Olympic Charter and that the IOC will work with the committee to "ensure that the event will be held in a sustainable way ...

In 1988, the IOC amended the Olympic Charter to deliberately pass the decision on amateurism over to the sports federations, the Olympic History article said. According to the article ...