Impact of Russia-Ukraine War on sports worldwide

Is that neutral flag going to be the same one under which other athletes without an NOC compete or is it going to be yet another sham like "ROC" and "OAR"?
 
Press release on olympics.com:
https://olympics.com/ioc/news/declaration-of-the-11th-olympic-summit

Selected quotes:

The vast majority of the participants agreed that the sanctions against the Russian and Belarusian states and governments, as those responsible for this blatant breach of the Olympic Truce and the Olympic Charter, must remain firmly in place. These sanctions include:
  • No international sports events being organised or supported by an International Federation (IF) or National Olympic Committee (NOC) in Russia or Belarus.

  • No flag, anthem, colours or any other identifications of these countries being displayed at any sports event or meeting.

  • As a reminder, the sanctions also include the unprecedented decision by the IOC to withdraw the Olympic Orders from the President of the Russian Federation and from the Deputy Prime Minister.
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BUT

The Summit emphasised that participation in sports competitions must be based exclusively on the sporting merits of an athlete and respect for the rules of sport. Another reason for the protective measures was that, in some countries, the safety and security of athletes from Russia and Belarus could not be guaranteed anymore.

These protective measures put the Olympic Movement in a grave dilemma. All athletes had to be protected from political interference. The integrity of sports competitions had to be ensured. This led the IOC to act against its mission to unify the entire world in peaceful competition, since it had to prohibit athletes from participation because of their passport only
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And then a list of propositions about "how to overcome this extremely grave dilemma" (I mean really? some proportion!) which can be summarised into "poor, poor russians, sport is above politics"
 
If Russians athletes do show up in the next 4 years at any event, the world should just stop watching any of these events (money is the language the IOC et al understands). After Russia's withdrawl from Ukraine it should depend on the Russia's willingness to pay for reparations, wheather they'll be allowed to participate or not. Sports always has been and always will be political, no matter what IOC or FIFA say otherwise
 
Olympic Summit agrees to follow up OCA [Olympic Council of Asia] proposal to host Russian and Belarus athletes for Paris 2024 qualifying events (Dec. 9, 2022):
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IOC Summit agrees to follow up OCA proposal to host Russia and Belarus athletes

The Olympic Summit, chaired by International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, has agreed unanimously to follow up an initiative proposed by th...
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The Olympic Summit, chaired by International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, has agreed unanimously to follow up an initiative proposed by the Olympic Council of Asia to enable Russian and Belarus athletes to take part in its competitions.
Members at the 11th Summit in Lausanne agreed that the IOC should "lead the further exploration of the OCA initiative concerning the participation of athletes who are in full respect of the Olympic Charter and the sanctions."
"This initiative to be discussed in the next round of IOC consultation calls with the IOC Members, the athletes’ representatives, the International Federations and the National Olympic Committees," an IOC release said.
It is understood the OCA is considering the addition of Russian and Belarusian athletes to some of its Paris 2024 qualifying events.
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World Athletics President Sebastian Coe was one of the main stakeholders who was not present.
Last week Coe, a member of the IOC, signalled that his sport would not be willing to lift sanctions until Moscow ended the conflict.
"This is fairly simple," the double Olympic gold medallist said following a World Athletics Council meeting in Rome.
"Get out of Ukraine."
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This is Maria Lasitskene. Who found time to write to Bakh, but did not find time to write to shoigu, whom she praises so much in this video. She also did not want to write to putin, whose adviser she was. She also did not have a single word of support for Ukrainian girls. She found something to say only after the World Cup in the USA. Six months after the start of the war. And now she will be allowed to perform with Katerina Tabashnik, whose mother was killed by a russian rocket. And then Maria will return home and receive the next awards from the hands of shoigu and putin.
I have no words.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1575404019597598721
 
Dobre said:
"participation in sports must be based exclusively on the sporting merits of an athlete and respect for the rules of sport"

:blah: What respect for the rules of sport? And since when is this the "exclusive" criteria? How about age limits?
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And what about COVID-ban? How many athletes were unable to compete in Beijing due to a positive test? Didn't know, that covid is a part of sorting merits...
 
Ukraine’s Parliament sanctions 55 Russian athletes and one Ukrainian for showing support towards war (Dec. 13):
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Ukrainian Parliament sanctions 55 Russian athletes for supporting war

The Ukrainian Parliament has sanctioned 55 Russian athletes and one Ukrainian for showing support towards Russia’s invasion of the country.
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The sport with the highest number of sanctioned athletes is figure skating with [Kamila] Valieva joined on the list by Alexander Gallyamov, Nikita Katsalapov, Mark Kondratyuk, Roman Kostomarov, Anastasia Mishina, Vladimir Morozov, Yevhen Plushenko, Iryna Rodnina, Victoria Sinitsina, Adelina Sotnikova and Yevgenia Tarasova.
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The sanctions will last for ten years and include the blocking of assets of persons on the territory of Ukraine, the restriction of trade operations, a ban on entering Ukraine and the removal of state awards of Ukraine.
Seven of the athletes on the list - Bolshunov, the Averina sisters, Katsalapov, Sinitsina, Tarasova and Morozov, all appeared on stage at a pro-war rally organised by Russian President Putin at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow in March.
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Is Emanuel Macron the appeaser behind all of this (Paris '24)? Is this Susanne Lyon woman a MAGA supporter? Nevertheless shame on IOC and USOC! :mad:
 
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Karen-W said:
Wasn't he sanctioned last spring when he appeared in those Navka shows?
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Yes, he's already on the list of sanctioned so he's not included in the article because it only includes new entries. This site has a document at the bottom that was updated in October. It's long, but if anyone is interested Petrenko is entry number 1734 on the list.
 
"Ombudsman: Children's torture chamber found in liberated Kherson. Ukrainian authorities discovered a room that Russians used to detain and torture children during the occupation of Kherson, Dmytro Lubinets, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada, said on Dec. 14.

According to testimonies from locals, other torture victims in the facility knew that Ukrainian children had been kept there by Russian security services, who had called the room 'a children's cell.'"


Cross-posting this here as if one is planning on ignoring all aspects of the war in order to prioritize sport, one should realize what one is ignoring.
 
Lilia A said:
I'm not. I've given them the benefit of the doubt a lot. For instance, the Kremlin meetings and even the speeches. Those may have been written by a staffer and given to them to read. Or maybe not. I don't know, I don't think we'll ever know. I understand and acknowledge that the meeting was their duty. But posting stuff like that on social media almost a year later, was that their duty? I acknowledge that posting openly against the war could endanger your well being and your family's. I don't think that not posting support would endanger anyone's life or livelihood, however. They could just choose to be silent like many other athletes. I don't want to continue this topic here because this is about skating news. I'm sorry I even brought stuff up. If anyone would like my opinion, please feel free to tag me in any appropriate thread in PI or in the thread about the invasion here in this sub-forum.
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Tagging.
 
"Ukrainian tennis players Sergiy Stakhovsky and Alexandr Dolgopolov are preparing to return to the front lines in the war against Russia as the tennis season begins for 2023."
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Stakhovsky and Dolgopolov head back to the battlefield as tennis season begins

Former Ukrainian tennis players Sergiy Stakhovsky and Alexandr Dolgopolov are preparing to return to the front lines in the war against Russia as the...
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"Seeing bodies doesn't matter to us anymore," Stakhovsky said, as reported by L'Équipe.
"Force of habit, let's say.
"Unfortunately, humans can adapt to anything.
"So we adapt to the bombardments.
"We are adapts to fear.
"And we adapt to death."
Stakhovsky joined the military reserve in Kiev at the start of the conflict last year before being deployed to a unit of mortar shooters.
Dolgopolov also volunteered at the beginning of the war and after spending a week training at a shooting range, the 34-year-old is now a drone operator in a unit attached to the Ukrainian military intelligence.
"At the beginning, it was very difficult, but you try to pull yourself together and stay strong," the former world number 13 told L'Équipe.
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