They probably assumed that a situation like this would never happen, considering that it has never happened in the past. I don't remember any American athletes having to go through this.

A lot of the athletes caught up in these bans don't even live in Russia.

The world is doing a lot to try and help Ukrainian citizens too. I don't see how banning Russian athletes from Wimbledon somehow stops Ukrainian homes being bombed.

It's so nice to see the tide finally starting to turn on this. It was obviously going to happen this year after the massive criticism they got for banning them last year. This along with the IOC giving a lot of support to the Russian athletes is a really good sign that most of the world is moving on from the stupid decision to discriminate against athletes because of the country they're from.

Yes. So now you understand that the deaths reported in Qatar are ridiculous.

I didn't say they're not bad.

A lot of people die everyday. Attributing every death over ten years to the World Cup is misleading and just done to make Qatar look worse than they already are.

It will be the same when the American countries host in 2026. In the eight years from 2018-2026, a lot of people working construction jobs in all three countries will die. Especially when you consider that Covid happened during those years too.

Somehow I'm sure people won't count the deaths in the same way for that tournament though.

It's usually more than just one person falling off a crane. People die, and considering how long it takes to build a World Cup, and how many people are involved, 500 people could be a reasonable number.

What we need is a number showing how many preventable deaths were directly caused by the World Cup. Most of these figures being reported are stupid things like total number of workers who died in Qatar in the last ten years, which is a pointless figure that does nothing except make people angry.