Posted on 07/15/2023 8:08:58 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
Over 200 countries will soon be receiving a formal invitation to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics, but Russia and Belarus will be excluded because of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee announced Thursday. However, athletes will be allowed to participate under a neutral flag.
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In 1988, the last time Soviet Union competed, it finished first in the medal count. From 1996 to 2016, Russia finished 2nd, then 3rd, and then 4th. In 2020, Russians treated as a team finished 5th.
Doesn’t seem like a good idea
Wait, why was the Olympics started in the first place? America should just take it’s ball and go home. That’s about as mature as anything else we are doing. Makes me ashamed to be American.
Wait, why was the Olympics started in the first place? America should just take it’s ball and go home. That’s about as mature as anything else we are doing. Makes me ashamed to be American.
This has nothing to due with the Americans. This is the International Olympic Committee rules and has been standard practice for the last several olympics. This time it is because of the war of aggression as opposed to doping (which they are probably still doing).
I just looked for a list of athletes banned and surprisingly, Russia and ROC were not on the top of the list.
2018 Pyeongchang
After the Russian Olympic Committee was barred from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics, Russian athletes deemed to be clean were allowed to compete as Olympic Athletes from Russia.
Still this guy got caught. Its Curling. This a sport best done drunk.
Alexander Krushelnitski, Olympic Athletes from Russia, mixed doubles curling, meldonium
And lastly, 2022 Beijing
By the end of the Beijing Olympics, a total five athletes were reported for doping violations.
Controversy surrounding the ROC
The medal ceremony for the team event in figure skating, where the ROC won gold, originally scheduled for 8 February, was delayed over what International Olympic Committee (IOC) spokesperson Mark Adams described as a situation that required “legal consultation” with the International Skating Union. Several media outlets reported on 9 February that the issue was over a positive test for trimetazidine by the ROC’s Kamila Valieva, which was officially confirmed on 11 February. Valieva’s sample in question was taken by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) at the 2022 Russian Figure Skating Championships on 25 December, but the sample was not analyzed at the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) laboratory where it was sent for testing until 8 February, one day after the team event concluded.
Russia should send a delegation of transexual athletes. That would really confuse the IOC
I like the way you think. They can compete under a rainbow flag with a Russian bear on it or something.
Well unfortunately the odds of us Olympic fencing team are low because of the antics on one member. Sad, they had a good shot at a medal.
Transgender runner, 49, wins women’s 400m bronze medal at the World Para Athletics Championships in Paris
Petrillo transitioned in 2019.
Never happened. He mutilated himself or took drugs . He’s a mentally ill fag .
The Olympics should be beyond politics. This only says that the Games are USA Dominated. Will Men be permitted in Women’s sports? Will these be Woke Games? They have gone down hill faster than the winter games bobsled races.
Why were the Olympics started in the first place?
To honor Zeus.
Another Olympics I won’t watch or follow.
Imagine an Olympics with no political component—crazy idea, I know....
:-(
It shouldn’t be about politics. Everyone should be invited.
So business as usual
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