Posted on 07/29/2023 9:40:42 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A day after Paris marked a year to go until the 2024 Olympics, Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan was disqualified from participating in the world championships after she refused to shake hands with Russian Anna Smirnova.
Kharlan’s disqualification threw into sharp relief the political and organizational jeopardy that France and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is facing ahead of the Games.
Russia’s ongoing invasion in Ukraine has provided decision makers with major challenges, notably the key question of Russian and Belarusian athlete participation.
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Cancel the phony games I won’t mind
Games? Oh, those. Gonna run out of Ukes pretty soon.
Who cares? I’m sure wokeness and trans circus would be insufferable.
I am sick to death of the olympic BS. Just let them die.
But will it affect the Hunger Games ?
Need to move it back to Athens. This merry-go-round of different cities and countries has become absurd, with astronomical costs. The Greeks started it, let them do the permanent hosting.
> Cancel the phony games I won’t mind <
You beat me to it. If the Olympic Games had any real societal value, that disappeared a long long time ago. Now it’s all about chest-puffing. And then there’s the millions spent on stadiums, etc. That money could far better be spent repairing bridges, building hospitals, etc.
Plus, think about all the carbon-based fuel that’s burned to transport athletes to the games!
(I just threw that in to get Greta Thunberg on our side.)
Getting together to see who is best at an ever growing list of events happens every year. Its not like they have the hassle of traveling by steamship every four years.
They have to hype the Olympics cuz there’s advertising money to gain.
Has anyone watched them over past 20 years?
The athletes should all be amateur. They can only compete once.
I am sick to death of the olympic BS. Just let them die.
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Same to be said about the severely corrupted government of Ukraine, halt the billions in Western welfare payments and they die, quickly. The Ukrainian people will have learned a harsh lesson, but their resolve will hopefully result in a much better Ukraine ( devoid of their horrendous corruption) focused on the people’s welfare…..their path today under the corrupted little comedian is genocide and defeat…..as we are witnessing.
The end of the Cold War pretty much ruined The Olympics. The fun was rooting against those evil Communists, while at the same time, being fascinated by watching them, like Vasily Alexeyev.
Plus now they’ve added some many events and the TV coverage is geared towards women.
Yes...those were indeed the days.
I recall going up to Quebec for the Winter Carnival back in 1987, and we saw the Soviet National Team play the NHL All Stars. It was great. I think the NHL might have won that game, and our favorite player, Ray Bourque, was playing in it.
Four of us (all hockey players on a mens league team we played on) rented a camper and drove up, and they had some crazy cold wave. It was something like 20-30 below zero the whole time, and the toilet on the camper completely froze up.
Three out of four of us were named “Bob” so everyone someone said “Bob” I would get whiplash.
When we got up there, we pulled over near some park when we entered the city to regroup. I decided I was going to go out for “a walk”. I had really good gear. But it was bitterly cold, blowing wind, and I have no idea what the wind chill was. But I did notice there was nobody else out walking around, so I went back to the camper. When I got inside, I realized just how damned cold it was. That night, my sleeping back froze to the window of the camper (I was sleeping in the top part...)
The worst part was, the generator in the camper wouldn’t stay running, and would kick on and off, shaking the whole camper noisily when it did so. At 3 AM we were in that bitter cold trying to fix it, and the cap came off the oil filler, spraying oil on my buddy and I. He was pissed. I don’t think he ever forgave me for that, as it was his favorite jacket. So the next day, we had to drive around looking for a laundromat where he washed his coat more than a few times, but...the oil stains weren’t going to come out.
But, seeing as to how it was a giant party, we were not to be denied. We each bought one of those hollow plastic canes with the Bon Homme head that unscrewed so you could fill the cane with brandy to drink, and we also purchased a vuvuzela. Yes, everyone had one, and we drab and we drank and drank, froze and froze, and blew those damned horns!
We went to the “Telephone Bar” where all the tables had telephones on them, and you could call anyone at any table. It was bizarre, yet fun. During Happy Hour, you could get two beers for the price of one, so we were purchasing them as fast as we could, and those things were lined up. Try as we might, we couldn’t drink them all.
The NHL Traveling Hall of Fame was there the day of the game, so that day, we went down there to go in and see the Stanley Cup. It was a abnormally bright and clear, and at that time of the morning, it was probably 20 degrees below zero.
We stood outside in a long line to get in, freezing our asses off, and everyone in the line was jumping around in place trying to get warm. With everyone bundled up, jumping around, great clouds of steam issuing from our mouths and noses, we all looked like huge, bulky prehistoric animals about to go extinct.
The only thing I remember when we got inside was the first table we stopped at where the great Gump Worsley was sitting on the other side, signing autographs.
He looked as us, being nearly frozen, and said: “Were you people standing in line out in that weather to get in?”
When we allowed that we had, he shook his head in disbelief and said: “You people are crazy.”
The irony was not lost on me that we were being called crazy for subjecting ourselves to that weather by this man who was best known for putting his un-masked goalie face in front of NHL slapshots!
I feel the same way. I wouldn’t have protested (much) sending humanitarian aid, but tens or hundreds of billions of dollars WE DON’T HAVE makes my blood boil.
It’s great to watch the East German men, oops, “women” compete
Over there, Croissant 🥐, Chocolate Mousse, Souffle, Detente, Avant Garde and Deja Vu.....
Heil, Heil East Germany
Land of vine and grape
Land where you’ll regret
Any try to escape
No matter if you take a running jump,
Or tunnel under the wall
Forget it, the guards will kill you—
If the electrified fence doesn’t first!
Have we met before........?
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