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Deluste t1_jc7yazj wrote

Maybe not but if you can’t see the problem with allowing Russia to participate - it’s time the rest of the worlds allows Russia, Belarus, China and India to be the only entrants.

Fuck those four - let’s simply setup a different set of games with VERY similar rules and entry qualifications and send out invites.

IOC - you aren’t irreplaceable

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JaZepi t1_jc7yfpt wrote

Ultimately can they not revoke passports, then the IOC could do nothing.

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Deluste t1_jc7zj5c wrote

Don’t bother locking them down - just create a shameless clone.

Less work that way

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EnvironmentCalm1 t1_jc90sgd wrote

Should ban Russia, US and anyone that's invaded innocent countries in the past 20 years.

Would be a pretty empty tho

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BumderFromDownUnder t1_jc9szly wrote

“Innocent countries”

Which countries are those? You’d be pretty ignorant if you thought Iraq was “innocent”.

Ukraine is the victim of nothing but Russian expansionism. Where has the US invaded with the goal of effectively renaming the country as part of the US?

Sure, US does and has done some bad shit. But Russia is doing far worse with far less reason.

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Britz10 t1_jca37jl wrote

Are you saying it's better to invade a country if it's not expanding a countries borders?

Personally invading to expand your national borders makes more sense than doing so for WMDs you knew weren't there.

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EnvironmentCalm1 t1_jca5657 wrote

"countries I invade are evil because of things I made up and admitted to making up after "

Also is Iraq the only country that got invaded in the last 20 years ?

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313_God t1_jc8ntii wrote

Western brain rot

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Deluste t1_jcaqiwx wrote

I think truth social might be more your speed :/

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JeffFromSchool t1_jc84csk wrote

If that's what you want, then I'd have to agree with the IOC - this would be the end of international competition as we know it.

I know you think it would make them look like fools with their "Olympics" of only 4 or 5 nations, but what you suggest would just grow into it's own monster. What we would end up with are "blocks" of international competitions where only countries that get along politically compete against each other.

People need to sit down and think before they just blurt out and run with the first solution that comes to mind. If we aren't careful, our solutions may not lead to a more peaceful world in 100 years, but a blocked-off, isolated one.

Personally, I don't want to look back at the 20th century as a rare and fleeting time in human history where we actually had our shit together enough to compete as a world.

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kennyisacunt t1_jc8bxvi wrote

The 20th Century? The century that had 2 world wars, a Cold War that led to a blocked off, isolated world, and boycotts of international competitions by "blocks" of countries that got along politically?

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Nepiton t1_jc8pkrv wrote

Don’t forget about the global depression as well that left many destitute and on the brink of starvation, Mao Zedong, Stalin, the Spanish Flu, American assassinations of POC, Jim Crowe, segregation, the Spanish Civil War, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, HIV, the Rwandan genocide.

The list goes on and on

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bogboom t1_jc8v4hr wrote

Guess you missed the part where the 66 nations boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics over the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. Or the 1984 LA Olympics that a bunch of Soviet Bloc nations and allies boycotted.

The thing is the Olympics the Soviet Bloc boycotted had huge participation by all the other nations where as the 1980 boycott turned the Olympics that year into a farce.

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JeffFromSchool t1_jc93u2k wrote

Guess you missed people boycotting Soviet athletes at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. Oh wait, you did, because that didn't happen. Good thing, too, or we wouldn't have had the Miracle on Ice.

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JeffFromSchool t1_jca78tf wrote

There is a world of difference between boycotting an Olympics games held in the Capital of a country invading others, and to refuse to host that countries athletes in an Olympiad held elsewhere. One is a political stance, the other is just racist/nationalist.

We boycotted the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow, but the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid welcomed Soviet Athletes with open arms. Who would have thought that we could learn a thing or two from 1980's America...

We still make movies about what happened in the 1980 Winter Games

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bogboom t1_jcak8mt wrote

And unlike 1980 there isn’t a convenient Olympics being held in Moscow to boycott, so the next best thing is prevent their athletes who have been caught time and again being involved in so many state sponsored drug scandals as well, from enjoying the privilege of international competition while their country continues its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the murder of thousands of civilians.

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JeffFromSchool t1_jcakz5r wrote

I mean, now you're just moving the goalposts. I don't disagree with you there, but that isn't what we were talking about.

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