Zelensky blasts Olympic committee move: ‘Any neutral flag of Russian athletes is stained with blood’

The hill ^ | 01/28/2023 | JOE JACQUEZ

[Leep]

He certainly has a flair for the dramatic?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

When we were growing up and playing sports, our champions were \patriots\ not political.

Olympic Hockey anyone?
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!

[ansel12]

Remember the 1968 Olympics?

[Jan_Sobieski]

Proverbs 17: 14 The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

Zelensky was elected to negotiate peace with the breakaway Republics and Russia. He did the opposite. Now he’s complaining.

[PghBaldy]

That explains the silliness. Thank you.

[Ragnar Danneskjöld]

Literally a drag queen, and an actor who played a teacher becoming president on Ukrainian TV. When he ran for actual president, they created the party name straight from the TV show.

[aquila48]

This is one of those wars where you root for both sides to lose.

[NWFree]

He needs to go suck an egg he’s the one with all of our money

[EEGator]

No, I was negative years old then.

[ansel12]

They were very political, black power.

[EEGator]

Black glove track guys?

[Allegra]

Zelensky is Greta Thunberg with a beard.

LOL - I like that. And Zelensky is more feminine than Greta.

[Bernard]

Despite all the good intentions, the nationalist drive to the Olympics goes back to 1936, with Jesse Owens showing up the Hitler-driven German team.

Or was all that talk a recent addition in the 1960's and forward?

I do agree with you about professional athletes, especially considering all the noise about Jim Thorp (1912? games)

Unfortunately, politics and money always end up ruining amateur sports at most levels.

[Bernard]

Target rifles or fencing swords, your choice!

Blunderbusses in hot air balloons!

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Has he told the NFL who should be in the Super Bowl yet?

[USA-FRANCE]

What? Zelensky a bitter little man you say ?

Imagine for one second... if YOU were the president of a tiny nation and having the world’s number two conventional army bombarding your people and fellow citizens day and night for almost a year, villages and cities leveled to the ground, tens of thousands of your country men, women and children killed...

In such a scenario, wouldn’t you too be a little “bitter”?

[ansel12]

Yep, black power was in the process of taking over the culture at that time and it has never ended.

[EEGator]

Shut it frog.

[EEGator]

Spending the majority of my life in the Philly area, I am completely done with their BS and whining.

[USA-FRANCE]

And what about Putin? Is he still hiding in his Kremlin bunker or is he in one of his huge Palaces paid by.... ?

Why is Putin so afraid to go to the border / frontline of the war he started? Zelensky has been many times in the Ukrainian warzone to support his troops. He dared to do that. Its courageous. Putins courage? Well, tell me when he dares going to visit his Russian troops dying or him. It will never happen... Whit such a “leader” no wonder so many Russian soldiers are deserting.

Putin is like those Democrats here in the USA, they never dare to come and visit the border, to see what a mess it has become.