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Zelensky blasts Olympic committee move: ‘Any neutral flag of Russian athletes is stained with blood’
The hill ^ | 01/28/2023 | JOE JACQUEZ

Posted on 01/28/2023 12:43:53 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday blasted the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over its stated desire to include Russian athletes in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

In spite of Zelensky’s calls to exclude Russia from next year’s Summer Olympics, the IOC on Wednesday said it aimed pursue a pathway for Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as “neutral athletes” who “in no way represent their state or any other organisation in their country.”

The organization said the passport an athlete holds should not be a reason why they can’t compete, citing a “unifying mission” during wartime. It pointed to the example of Yugoslavian athletes competing at the 1992 Barcelona Games, despite the country being under United Nations sanctions during a civil war.

Zelensky, in a Friday speech, blasted the IOC’s “attempts to bring representatives of the terrorist state into world sports.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: committee; olympic; russian; zelensky
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He certainly has a flair for the dramatic?


21 posted on 01/28/2023 1:25:24 PM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: EEGator

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

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


22 posted on 01/28/2023 1:30:31 PM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Machine-gun jumblies. How'd I miss that? - Austin Powers 2)
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To: EEGator

Remember the 1968 Olympics?


23 posted on 01/28/2023 1:36:08 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
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.
24 posted on 01/28/2023 2:08:42 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Mears

That explains the silliness. Thank you.


25 posted on 01/28/2023 2:50:24 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: wildcard_redneck

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.


26 posted on 01/28/2023 3:50:53 PM PST by Ragnar Danneskjöld
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To: napscoordinator

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


27 posted on 01/28/2023 4:57:21 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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


28 posted on 01/28/2023 5:24:01 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: ansel12

No, I was negative years old then.


29 posted on 01/28/2023 5:38:29 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

They were very political, black power.


30 posted on 01/28/2023 5:47:51 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

Black glove track guys?


31 posted on 01/28/2023 5:53:25 PM PST by EEGator
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To: wildcard_redneck
Zelensky is Greta Thunberg with a beard.

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

32 posted on 01/28/2023 5:57:44 PM PST by Allegra
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To: elpadre
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.

33 posted on 01/28/2023 5:59:30 PM PST by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: armourenthusiast
Target rifles or fencing swords, your choice!

Blunderbusses in hot air balloons!

34 posted on 01/28/2023 6:01:08 PM PST by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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


35 posted on 01/28/2023 6:03:25 PM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: EEGator; All

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”?


36 posted on 01/28/2023 6:06:09 PM PST by USA-FRANCE
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To: EEGator

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


37 posted on 01/28/2023 6:06:24 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: USA-FRANCE

Shut it frog.


38 posted on 01/28/2023 6:34:32 PM PST by EEGator
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To: ansel12

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


39 posted on 01/28/2023 6:35:46 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Allegra; wildcard_redneck; ansel12

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.


40 posted on 01/28/2023 6:44:50 PM PST by USA-FRANCE
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