Should Russia be banned from the Olympics?
I think they should, not just because they invaded Ukraine but because of the human rights violations. Is it fair to deprive Russian athletes for what Putin did? I regret that Russian athletes would suffer, but there are larger principles at stake. Would a ban in and of itself stop the invasion? Most likely not, but it is one additional action that can be taken.
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Sure, but is that it?
I can’t imagine a more ineffective penalty.
*banned. Although banded sounds good too. ;)
Yes yes yes! Russia has broken a lot of law of war just like Hitler. Putin has also broken the good leadership rule.
Yes, but it’s a slap on the wrist as far as punishment goes. I doubt putin could give a s**t.
When a state like Putin’s Russia begins to terrorise on an industrial scale it can no longer be treated as a normal country and it should be banned from the Olympics.
No Russian flags only “unaffiliated athletes” !
What does the Olympics stand for? Why does it exist? Promote and celebrate world peace maybe. If that’s the case, no, Russia should be banned.
Because the Olympics is about the athletes, and about all the countries coming together. Do you think excluding Russia will stop Russia from invading Ukraine?
How many countries in the Olympics do horrible things? Are we going to ban North Korea?
Let Russia go. Maybe they will be booed and ostracized. Maybe the athletes will hear how the rest of the world thinks about what Russia is doing. Maybe when Russia walks in everyone in the stadium holds up a Ukrainian flag!
I don’t think I want to welcome a country that is currently actively killing innocent men, women and children. I think the entire world already knows what Russia is doing a little booing in not gonna open their eyes now.
Might as well let Charles Manson’s followers walk in the Macy’s Thanksgivings Day Parade.
They are known to be notorious cheats during past Olympic games. That alone should be enough.
I have mixed feelings on this. I’m very much living and dying every day with multiple Ukraine updates and so on. I’m very interested in sticking my thumb in Putin’s eye, and he CARES about this kind of junk. I don’t understand why, but dictators always REALLY care about this kind of stuff.
Buuuut, that having been said, I think the athletes should be allowed to compete. The
problem is that if you do this, then the precedent is set. Is ANY invasion subject to an olympic ban? Or just the unpopular ones? Basing it on popularity is kind of a shitty standard, but the US would have been kicked out of the Olypmics for every war it’s participated in since WW2.
The UK could have been kicked out for the Falklands. Oh, you might say that was their islands, but that’s not how Argentina saw it. So who get banned? Does UK get the benefit because it’s more powerful? More influential?
Who are the impartial adjudicators here? Certainly not the very-corrupt-though-slightly-less-corrupt-than-FIFA IOC, and yes, that is a real adjective. It’s in Websters.
Get rid of the Olympics entirely.
The IOC is corrupt.
The games (and many other major sporting events) are little more than huge vehicle for corporate advertising.
For many states it is a means of sportwashing and national chauvinism.
And the top athletes from the countries that use sport for propaganda have a long history of cheating, that includes Russia, China, and the USA.
It’s utter nonsense. There’s no reason to cheer on your country in the Olympics or to be proud of any of the sporting achievements. It’s just strangers doing stuff they like and willingly getting used for state and corporate propaganda.
The athletes are the ones who really suffer.
^^ Especially when years later we hear about the sexual, physical and emotional abuse heaped on them. In some countries, heaven forbid you should lose; you’re better off seeking asylum somewhere than go back home.
I’m sorry about what this would mean for the athletes, but absolutely. If the athletes want to defect and compete for another country, I would have no problem with that, but I don’t even think they should be allowed to compete the way they did last time, where they weren’t technically representing Russia but they were from Russia? I didn’t get that whole thing but it didn’t seem like enough of a consequence.
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