Posted on 07/27/2021 3:40:10 AM PDT by Libloather
Those tuning into the Tokyo Olympics may have noticed that Russian athletes are competing under the flag of the ROC, or Russian Olympic Committee, rather than their native country. That’s because the 335 Russian athletes participating in this year’s Summer Games are considered “neutrals” due to the fact that Russia is currently banned from the Olympics.
In 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency banned Russia from all international sporting competitions, including the Olympics, for four years over a doping scandal. The punishment was cut in half to two years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport following a 2020 appeal and now ends in December 2022. But at this year’s Olympics, Russia still can’t be represented as a country.
This led to the creation of the ROC, a workaround for Russian athletes who have proven they weren’t connected to the doping scandal to still be able to compete in Tokyo.
How does ROC work?
While the Russian athletes in Tokyo are still wearing the Russian colors of white, blue and red, under the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) rules, they’re prohibited from displays of national representation in any form.
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This means that instead of the Russian flag, the ROC is represented by a flag featuring an Olympic flame in Russian colors above the five Olympic rings. If a ROC athlete or team wins gold, as the men’s artistic gymnastics team did on Monday, Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s “Piano Concerto No. 1” plays instead of the Russian national anthem. The ROC is currently in the top five on the medal board.
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So somebody blessed a chicken and turned it into a fish?
I’ve successfully avoided watching any Olympics.
“the men’s artistic gymnastics team”
What the.....!
When I think of physical prowess the Chinese are not the first people who come to my mind.
Ditto. Woke Olympics. Who cares?
In the Olympics, so as not to offend China, Taiwan is called Chinese Taipei.
I remember back when they were called “The Unified Team” after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Russia has not been a communist state for thirty years.
As for Russian athletes competing under ROC, they seek personal glory and made themselves into mercenaries.
LOL LOL LOL
My “Olympic attention span” has been so limited for so long, this whole nonsense is total news to me. I read it feeling like “who knew”, as in “who knew anything about this”. LOL again
Like everything else, the Olympics is now diluted and meaningless.
Russia nor Putin are communist anymore. The Biden regmine and American left are much closer to being communist.
One would think the male claiming to be a female for NZ would fail a doping test. Is there a limit to how much, if any, testosterone a female can have?
Not by the looks of the female swimmers.
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