Posted on 07/23/2021 8:04:21 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Russia on Friday fired back at the International Olympic Committee after it appeared to change a map previously showing the Crimean Peninsula as separate from Ukraine hours before the games' opening ceremonies were scheduled to begin.
"This is a reason for our embassy and our sports officials to take appropriate action and ask appropriate questions," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday morning, according to a translation of his remarks.
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Russia should withdraw their team.
The Olympics are a farce anyway. I saw part of the Opening Ceremonies and it was atrocious.
Complaining just to be complaining.
Does the Olympic map still count Israel as a country? Or have organizers caved on that?
And of course they still don’t let Taiwan march with their flag.
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