Yea.. like.. since when does the Olympic committee cared about the human rights abuses of the host countries? That would be a defamatory accusation for business.

Time for an international boycott. If any Russian federation athlete is allowed to compete I will not watch the Olympics.

old fucks filling their coffins with blood money

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It’s hilarious how they are corrupt and busted yet try to pass it of as “oh it’s not us, it’s the sports federations”. What a crock of shit

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but others will and nothing will change.

the athletes need to boycott by not competing, no athletes, no money.

(the ones that aren't greedy themselves, if they even exist)

I mean the WC was hosted in Russia while they were bombing syrian civilians of course they gonna allow russian athletes in the olympic

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Seriously, who watched the Olympics before?

IOC too deep in bed with Russia

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 74%. (I'm a bot)

> The International Olympic Committee on Monday rejected fierce criticism from Ukrainian officials, who have accused it of promoting war after the body said Russians could potentially be given the opportunity to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

> "The IOC rejects in the strongest possible terms this and other defamatory statements," the IOC told Reuters in a statement.

> The IOC said last week that it welcomed a proposal from the Olympic Council of Asia for Russian and Belarusian athletes to have the chance to compete in Asia.

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> The 2020 Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo, which actually took place in 2021, had a global audience of approximately 3.05 billion, down from 3.2 billion five years earlier.

Just a few people.

Now that sounds like a Conspiracy

Any fuckin event with Russia participation is of absolutely no interest to me.

Well, it's already starting: https://athletistic.com/other-sports/182854.html

Several other European countries would be likely to join the boycott

If big business withholds its sponsorship of the Olympic Games (IOC!), it will be interesting to see how quickly the IOC’s stance on letting Russian and Belarusian athletes participate changes!!!

Yeah! Let's punish the athletes because a dictator did a thing..oh wait that's dumb.

That is right, 1936 Nazi Germany Olympics were all about sport and not because a dictator did a thing.

Always has been

PIss on the I.O.C.

Jesus! Must be an American thing to not care.

Russia as a whole needs to support the genocide campaign against Ukraine for it to happen. It wasn't Putin Khan shooting tied up people on the streets of Bucha. Russia is doing a thing and that thing is the crime of genocide.

Yes let's punish Russia. Remove any sense of pride their athletes might bring to bandage over their war criminal image.

Or a rule 34...

The IOC has revoked a total of 149 medals In its history, due to athletes doping.

Russia makes up 51 of those medals revoked.

They are not actual competitors, they cheat.

It's very telling. im curious your thoughts on that.

This is my plan. Tell everyone to not watch. It won't be on any tv near me including restaurants. If it's on it will be turn it off or I'm out. Obviously I will not be in any multi TV bars, and I'm okay with that

When the collective world walks away from the Olympics because of Russia they will find out.

They can have new Olympics with only Iran, China, Korea, Russia

Or they can have actual Olympics, without Russia, because nobody gives a fuck about Russia👌 they made their bed and now they can deal with the consequences for decades and decades to come

Isn't a defense against defamation saying something that is unambiguously true?

And China.

keep politics out of sports. You cant punish athlets because of their governments. If iranian or N Korean athletes can compete why not russian or bielorussian ones?

I'm glad not everyone is suckered in by Volodymyr's bullshit.

Better yet target the sponsors. If enough people get involved and the likes of Coke are getting bad press they will pretty quickly persuade the IOC to change.