The IOC said Russian and Belarusian athletes will be allowed to compete at the Paris 2024 Olympics as long as they have not supported the war in Ukraine
During entire 2001-2021 Afghanistan Conflict, Russia and U.S. cooperated and shared intelligence. U.S. was fighting a conflict on China's border in Russia's neighborhood. Global peace is best for international trade.
I predicted this throughout. Anyone who didn't understand it would play out this way never listened to manipulated Thomas Bach or understood his devotion to Vladimir Putin, who played a major role in Bach becoming IOC president.
It is difficult to believe that Sebastian Coe predicted a few months ago that Russians would not be in Paris. He was more in tune with logic than Bach.
Now that the door is officially open Bach will quietly undertake methods to pry it open even further, to the point very few are excluded.
Safe for Paris, Putin and Russia can now escalate the war
This is fair at this point. Kenya has rampant doping corruption and their entire team was never banned. Enough with banning entire countries. No reason to ban Belarus either.
Russia was using their national Anti Doping Admin to dope athletes. They used their national intelligence service to change out drug samples in Sochi. They did not cooperate with WADA to clean up. It seemed reasonable to ban them based on those things.
Kenya has a drug problem that their Anti Doping Admin has made efforts to cover, but did not directly dope the athletes.
I don't know much about Belarus doping, nor could I name an athlete from there.
Russia was using their national Anti Doping Admin to dope athletes. They used their national intelligence service to change out drug samples in Sochi. They did not cooperate with WADA to clean up. It seemed reasonable to ban them based on those things.
Kenya has a drug problem that their Anti Doping Admin has made efforts to cover, but did not directly dope the athletes.
I don't know much about Belarus doping, nor could I name an athlete from there.
And if you actually believe that you also believe masks save lives, covid vaxxes are safe and effective, and Israel is a victim. You also most likely believed Russia would disintegrate 2 years ago just as your MSM mind programming suggested.
Russia had the most effective drug testing agency in the world - RUSADA. Busted more than any other nation. Meanwhile countries that have no functioning drug testing agency, like Ethiopia, are allowed to compete without question.
Russia was using their national Anti Doping Admin to dope athletes. They used their national intelligence service to change out drug samples in Sochi. They did not cooperate with WADA to clean up. It seemed reasonable to ban them based on those things.
Kenya has a drug problem that their Anti Doping Admin has made efforts to cover, but did not directly dope the athletes.
I don't know much about Belarus doping, nor could I name an athlete from there.
Can you name some real proves of this? not just words of Rodchenkov or McLaren?
Russia was using their national Anti Doping Admin to dope athletes. They used their national intelligence service to change out drug samples in Sochi. They did not cooperate with WADA to clean up. It seemed reasonable to ban them based on those things.
Kenya has a drug problem that their Anti Doping Admin has made efforts to cover, but did not directly dope the athletes.
I don't know much about Belarus doping, nor could I name an athlete from there.
Russia "was using blah, blah, blah." I don't trust any claims against Russia, knowing what the USA/EU/NATO have been up to in the Ukraine since 2014, Syria, etc. Russia cheats at sports is a much easier claim to make and get away with than complete reversal of good/evil that they've done in Ukraine, Syria, etc, etc, etc. Oh, not to mention the Covid Hoax, BLM/Antifa riots, and the rigged US elections of 2020.
Russia was using their national Anti Doping Admin to dope athletes. They used their national intelligence service to change out drug samples in Sochi. They did not cooperate with WADA to clean up. It seemed reasonable to ban them based on those things.
Kenya has a drug problem that their Anti Doping Admin has made efforts to cover, but did not directly dope the athletes.
I don't know much about Belarus doping, nor could I name an athlete from there.
Russia "was using blah, blah, blah." I don't trust any claims against Russia, knowing what the USA/EU/NATO have been up to in the Ukraine since 2014, Syria, etc. Russia cheats at sports is a much easier claim to make and get away with than complete reversal of good/evil that they've done in Ukraine, Syria, etc, etc, etc. Oh, not to mention the Covid Hoax, BLM/Antifa riots, and the rigged US elections of 2020.
I wonder how many centuries Israel's free pass will be in effect, before the world will accept the fact, that just because someone's great-grandfather was a victim of a genocide it does not prevent that someone from becoming a perpetrator of a genocide themselves.
> Washington vetoing a UN Security Council resolution on Friday calling for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” and the “immediate and unconditional release of hostages”.
The western controlled institutions are dysfunctional, dying and need to be replaced or drastically reformed.
> Once upon a time, the Olympics was about the best athletes in the world.
Do you think Russia is going to crawl back to its abusrrs? Much like the western controlled SWIFT bankng system, it wouldn't surpise me if the global majority enacts their own version of the Olympics and "leave SWIFT" to the western minority.
