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[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 72 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Aren't countries that are invading other countries banned from the Olympics? That's the flimsy reason why Russia isn't allowed this time.

[–] MattsAlt@hexbear.net 63 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the-podcast did an episode recently, not only about invading during the Olympics (the Olympic Truce) [where the US never faced any pushback over 10 Olympics games throughout the wars in West Asia] but also about destroying or occupying sports facilities in invaded areas

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This was quite educational. Basically, the IOC's official stance is:

geordi-no "You started governing the regions you control? That's interfering with athletes in the region! BANNED!"

geordi-yes "You started genociding the regions you control? Well, as long as you aren't governing, that's fine by us!"

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago

(And Amerikkka is excluded from these rules. As is tradition.)

[–] LocalOaf@hexbear.net 49 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Did they get banned banned or are they still doing the thing where the athletes still compete but with generic uniforms and no Russian flag/anthem they did after the Sochi doping scandal?

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 50 points 3 months ago

The latter. The athletes are all there. It's so stupid.

[–] The_Jewish_Cuban@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

Even though it's a pale comparison to the heart of the USSR anthem, massive L taking out the best one Olympic committee

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

This time they didn't even let Russians or Belorussians be part of the opening ceremony. They had a refugee team, but not a general one for people who couldn't be part of a different nation.

[–] pastalicious@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The ghouls in charge would probably just shrug and say Gaza isn’t a country. Rules are just made up to justify libs doing what they were already determined to do.

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

Israel has illegal occupations recognized by the UN in Palestine. They also occupy the Sheba Farms of Lebanon and the Golan Heights of Syria, two nations they have illegally invaded.

[–] GlueBear@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Because that would be political to allow Russia in, but also it would be political to ban the entity from the games too. So in an effort to be as unpolitical as possible we banned some countries for some invasions and kept some countries for some invasions.

The Olympics and FIFA are totally apolitical organizations btw.

[–] Saeculum@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was under the impression that the reason they were banned was because of all the doping, and only tangentially related to the war. I haven't read that much about it though.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 2 points 3 months ago

That was last time. This time it's because they violated THE OLYMPIC TRUCE, which only applies to Enemy States, apparently.