bogboom t1_jc8v4hr wrote
Reply to comment by JeffFromSchool in Not up to UK to decide Russian Olympic ban - IOC by rejs7
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.
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.
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
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.
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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