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socratyes t1_jefnurc wrote

Reply to comment by hi_imovedagain in Ukraine wants to stop its athletes from facing Russians by PrincessBananas85

To be fair you can say this about any country at war when in comes to training their athletes. Sports is meant to transcend politics. North Korea vs South Korea, armenia vs azerbaijan, Isreal vs most middle east countries. Plus if we starting banning countries for how they have treated others in wars then the uk can't compete against anyone lol.

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hi_imovedagain t1_jefq9h7 wrote

Well, does South Korea has completely destroyed facilities? I’m not implying on the moral aspect, I’m saying about the technical unfairness when you start the war but your athletes are just fine and earning money and fame while people you bomb, Ukrainian athletes have to do lots of extra steps (if one can put it like that), mostly ending in training abroad apart from the family. It is probably hard to imagine from outside but having most of sports facilities shelled and destroyed doesn’t really help enjoying sports or transcending politics. Then, imagine if russian athlete wins and has to stand near Ukrainian one, how the latter would react?

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Alternative_Spite_11 t1_jegcbar wrote

The Ukrainian high level athletes are out of country dude

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hi_imovedagain t1_jegculb wrote

I wrote below. It affects them a lot. Besides, they cannot train abroad forever, this whole situation is very unstable, with short term contracts, no future prospects, when you retire you do the burden for the team in order how to train new generation. All this while facing the smile of russian athletes that don’t have to worry about anything.

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Alternative_Spite_11 t1_jegdi8r wrote

Yeah that’s the exact sort of thing high level athletes like to overcome and show everyone just how good they are. Russia should absolutely face consequences on a sporting level but this is giving the consequences to the Ukrainian athletes who will now lose because of the politics

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hi_imovedagain t1_jegdwnn wrote

No, for what I’ve seen in their posts, they’re fine with it. It’s not like this decision was made by force and without consultations.

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Alternative_Spite_11 t1_jege5ux wrote

Of course they’re publicly fine with it. That doesn’t mean there aren’t Uknrainian athletes that won’t qualify for the Olympics purely because of this rule

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