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2018 Winter Olympics: What happens if the IOC bans Russia on Tuesday
CBS Sports ^ | Dec 4, 2017 | Cody Benjamin

Posted on 12/04/2017 2:32:55 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose

...For one, Putin will be furious. Losing any and all connection to the Olympics a month before Russia's election would be a black mark for his country, and the IOC is reportedly already aware that its decision could humiliate the disgruntled president...

Alexander Zhukov, president of the Russian Olympic Committee, called the WADA findings a "joke."

Since November, with only months to spare before the start of PyeongChang's 2018 ceremonies, Russia has seen more than two dozen athletes reprimanded by the IOC for cheating in previous Olympics, namely the 2014 Sochi Games. Some have been stripped of gold medals for their alleged roles in a "state-backed doping program." Others have been retroactively disqualified. And many have been outright and indefinitely banned from future Olympics participation, including in February's South Korean Winter Games.

All the while, Russian president Vladimir Putin has neither acknowledged nor publicly considered the possibility of state cooperation in the doping scandal despite incriminating notes from a Russian chemist that were obtained by The New York Times. He's been most vocal, in fact, when painting the widespread Olympics sanctions not as evidence of structural corruption in his own country but merely as fodder for his political rivals -- Putin is on record suggesting that America is using the doping sanctions to "discredit" his government and influence Russia's presidential election in March.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: 2018olympics; good; northkorea; olympics; putin; russiasucks; screwrussia; southkorea
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To: GoldenState_Rose

>>But I was for the U.S. “Magnificent 7” Gymnastics team winning Gold in Atlanta...after Kerri Strug stuck her landing with a broken ankle. That was awesome :)!

Among other special moments!<<

Except for the fact there should NEVER have been a 10 awarded ever. And once one was awarded t was the only “good” mark meaning they are unable to differentiate or distinguish. Which was the original “point” to the point system.

Which is when gymnastics ceased being a sport and joined “rhythmic gymnastic” as pure spectacle. A chance to see prepubescent girls all but naked.


21 posted on 12/04/2017 3:14:03 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Conservatives should do daily affirmations: reading/repeating the 9th and 10th Amendments)
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To: Stingray51

To the Soviet hockey team’s credit...this is an incredible documentary on their story from Lake Placid 1984. Trailer here. Called “Red Army” - you may have already seen it. It won several awards. Slava Fetisov is hilarious, but the story is full of sadness and drama. To be expected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLiakZO8FzU


22 posted on 12/04/2017 3:17:11 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: freedumb2003; henkster; DoughtyOne; Buckeye McFrog

To the Soviet hockey team’s credit...this is an incredible documentary on their story from Lake Placid 1984. Trailer here. Called “Red Army” - you may have already seen it. It won several awards. Slava Fetisov is hilarious, but the story is full of sadness and drama. To be expected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLiakZO8FzU


23 posted on 12/04/2017 3:17:44 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: freedumb2003; henkster; DoughtyOne; Buckeye McFrog; Stingray51

1980*


24 posted on 12/04/2017 3:19:31 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: GoldenState_Rose

Thank you. I’ll check it out.

YouTube is an amazing thing.


25 posted on 12/04/2017 3:26:38 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass Cons legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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To: GoldenState_Rose

If they exclude Russia, it will be official that the Olympics are just another tool and plaything for the world’s globalist, progressive elites.


26 posted on 12/04/2017 3:29:46 PM PST by PGR88
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To: PGR88

You mean the globalist elites the Russian oligarchs finance?


27 posted on 12/04/2017 3:30:28 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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To: GoldenState_Rose
Yeah retroactive justice must be made, but the special moment was already robbed from the rightful first place athlete. Sad.

Perhaps the right way was the way that the Tour de France took when it stripped Lance Armstrong of his 7 victories. The record for each of those 7 years has NO WINNER as almost everyone of his rivals and the 2nd & 3rd place platform sharers were just as guilty of doping as he was.

28 posted on 12/04/2017 3:31:24 PM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: GoldenState_Rose

Thank you for that. Short and arresting...


29 posted on 12/04/2017 3:35:02 PM PST by Does so (McAuliffe's Charlottesville...and...The Walter Duranty Press"...)
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To: GoldenState_Rose

Any Country in question should have ALL of its athletes given “drug tests” before they are allowed to participate.


30 posted on 12/04/2017 4:07:46 PM PST by WellyP (question!)
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To: GoldenState_Rose

Point about NFL players disrespecting the National Anthem.

Imagine an Olympic contest won by a country that most Americans find reprehensible, say North Korea, and suppose the U.S. finishes 2nd or 3rd so that the U.S. team is on the podium during the ceremony. Imagine that during the playing of the North Korean national anthem that all the white players on the U.S. team walked off the podium.

The media would go ballistic saying this is extremely impolite and disrespectful, and for once, they’d be right.


31 posted on 12/04/2017 4:13:32 PM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: GoldenState_Rose

Did a Russian touch you in a way that made you feel icky?


32 posted on 12/04/2017 4:24:14 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ... we.)
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To: henkster

No NHL players are going anyway. This does effect KHL players.


33 posted on 12/04/2017 4:32:35 PM PST by Varda (Liberalism IS hate)
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To: sockmonkey

I agree. That means that their medal ceremonies are worthless.


34 posted on 12/04/2017 5:56:26 PM PST by The Public Eye
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To: GoldenState_Rose

Have not seen Red Army but I did see the ESPN 30 in 30 “Of Ice and Men” about the 1980 Soviet team that lost at Lake Placid. Fetisov was interesting but so were Mikhailov and Petrov, who with Kharlamov were the best line in hockey. Mikhailov was an unreconstructed Soviet Russian. When asked if he’d ever watched “Miracle” his response was “Why? I want to watch the movie where we win.” I think he or Petrov just recently passed away.

That 1980 team was one of the best hockey teams ever assembled. And of the many crimes against humanity committed by the USSR, one of them was its refusal to grant those guys the freedom to play in North America.

Credit to Fetisov for insisting on leaving the way he did. “I have to do this so that others can follow.” They have, and the NHL is a much better product for it.


35 posted on 12/04/2017 6:10:26 PM PST by henkster
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To: freedumb2003

Rhythmic Gymnastics became an Olympic sport due to a deal we cut with the Soviets. They wanted a trash sport to pad their medal count, so we agreed to allow it if we could get a trash sport to pad ours. And so Synchronized Swimming became an Olympic sport too.


36 posted on 12/04/2017 6:13:02 PM PST by henkster
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To: henkster

Years ago when I was between marriages I used to go to a local municipal golf course and play as a single. One Saturday afternoon, I got paired with a nice young man and his father-in-law. We were all decent players and got to chatting during a typical backup at the first par three hole and were discussing Olympic sports since it was not long until the Summer games I forget where. Anyway, I was mocking the newish event called Synchronized Swimming and the young man blushed. He told me that his mother was the head of the team and instrumental in lobbying for it’s inclusion. I told him I was sorry but I really wasn’t. The father-in-law winked at me behind the young man’s back and I figured he thought it was a crock of shit, too.


37 posted on 12/04/2017 6:21:39 PM PST by VietVet876
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To: sweetiepiezer

What a backfire for going after Roy Moore.


38 posted on 12/04/2017 6:24:47 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: GoldenState_Rose

I wonder what North Korea has planned for the Olympics?


39 posted on 12/04/2017 7:06:55 PM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: henkster

Nowadays though he is reversing course and trying to keep Russia’s best players inside, and to up the level of the domestic leagues. Understandable.


40 posted on 12/04/2017 7:18:49 PM PST by GoldenState_Rose
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