JeffFromSchool t1_jca78tf wrote on March 15, 2023 at 12:06 PM

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

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 on March 15, 2023 at 1:51 PM

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 on March 15, 2023 at 1:56 PM

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.