knotthatone@lemmy.onetoWorld News@lemmy.ml•IOC boss says individual athletes cannot be punished for acts of their governments, defending move to allow Russians and Belarusians to compete as neutralsEnglish
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1 year agoI agree with this in principle, but the way they were allowed to compete as the “Russian Olympic Committee” was bullshit. You can’t have a team called “totally not Russia (wink)” and expect that to be a meaningful punishment for the nations leaders
I think the athletes should only be able to compete as citizens of the world with no reference or acknowledgement of the banned country allowed.
I’m pretty sure the Ukrainians will cease firing once the Russians leave their country and stop trying to murder them.