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

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

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

Less work that way

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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UK doesn't have to grant visas. Nor should they.

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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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Western brain rot

You don't think for one second that the IOC will close their open pockets on morel grounds do you lol

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

Right! IOC acting like they run the UK lol

No, it will depend on the unknown cash deposits into the IOC board members bank accounts.

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.

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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IOC and the NCAA probably have the same consultants.

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.

Correct. World says ban Russians. Bye!

The Russians waited until after the winter Olympics ended to start their invasion. They can wait until the war is over before being allowed into the next one.

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Such a dumb comment

“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.

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.

Why those 4?

"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 ?

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

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.

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.

I think truth social might be more your speed :/

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