What absolute bullshit.
I would expect that Russian & Belarussian athletes will be back by next spring at the latest. Qualifying events for the next summer Olympics will start in earnest in the spring of 2023, and the IOC will want to give the athletes the opportunity to qualify, even as independent athletes, for the 2024 Olympics.
Which is bullshit. Keep them out from 2024 and 2026. Russia doesn't deserve another chance. They have demonstrated, repeatedly, that they are incapable of keeping politics out of sports; plus doping.
Same here. I hope it's just talks, without action. This website is usually well informed.
Excerpt:
(CC: @Alilou) Thomas Bach was asked about the Russian ban on his visit to Italy yesterday - from the end of this AP article:
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I disagree. How is the IOC in a dilemma in this situation unless they believe that their dilemma is to find a way to allow the Russians to compete in spite of actions of the Russian government, and military.
Yes, ok I take your point. He'd love a way out of the dilemma - by letting the Russians participate.
I do not really understand his answer. Why would he be talking in any way shape or form of the ban ever being over when Russia has not stopped in any way this monstrous war and genocide on the Ukrainian country. When they are completely out of Ukraine by their decision to leave and all PPL guilty of war crimes are charged, arrested and trials underway and they have paid to rebuild Ukraine is the time to even consider opening any talks. Nothing has changed since Feb 24th....except for the number of rapes, torture and murders of the Ukrainian PPL and the good Russians who have protested the war.....or spoken up in any way.Excerpt:
(CC: @Alilou) Thomas Bach was asked about the Russian ban on his visit to Italy yesterday - from the end of this AP article:
IOC president Bach discusses 'challenges' for 2026 Games
Costly construction delays, a leadership vacancy linked to a volatile political climate and a lack of sponsors amid a spreading financial crisis has prompted International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach to acknowledge the “challenges” facing organizers of the 2026 Winter Games in Milan and
WTF
olympics.nbcsports.com
Well, the President of the IBA is a Russian and they don't even run the Olympic competitions now, since the IOC stripped them of that right. This will, if anything, only further solidify the IOC's efforts to put Olympic boxing under the aegis of a new/different boxing federation. IBA is corrupt as hell.Thumbs down to the International Boxing Association:
International Boxing Association lifts ban on Russia, Belarus
The International Boxing Association (IBA) lifted its ban on boxers from Russia and Belarus over the war in Ukraine that had been in place since March.
The story has a continuation. Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska spoke with Anastasia Gasanova and she personally repeated to her all the Russian propaganda that justifies the war
Shouldn't the time of the ban officially start after the Russians seize warmongering. They are trying to kill if possible all Ukrainians b4 the ban finishes and then prance onto centre ice throughout the world. Not a chance.! I think there are enough good PPL on the earth to make sure this does not happen."The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) are still monitoring testing operations in Russia ahead of the decision on whether to reinstate the country, despite complications caused by the Ukraine war, president Witold Banka said on Tuesday." (Reuters article):
WADA still monitoring Russia ahead of expiration of ban: Banka
SYDNEY: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) are still monitoring testing operations in Russia ahead of the decision...www.brecorder.com
Relevant excerpt below (I've posted the Valieva part in the GSD thread: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...y-for-team-medals.109402/page-52#post-6299163)
The existing two-year ban from international sport imposed by WADA on Russia for widespread, state-sponsored infringements of doping regulations expires at the end of the year.
Some Russians have continued to compete internationally as “neutral” athletes, including at the last two Olympic Games, but the isolation of the country after the start of the war further complicated the process of ensuring doping compliance.
Banka, who reiterated WADA’s condemnation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow calls a “special military operation”, said the organisation was still able to monitor the work of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA).
“We have an open line communication with RUSADA to make sure that the war is not a paradise for cheats,” the Pole told reporters at WADA’s Global Education Conference in Sydney.
“We monitor them closely to see what they are doing … we didn’t close this line of communication. “So what will be in the next weeks, months, due to the war and the situation in Ukraine, and the Russian situation, is hard to predict.
“We have to wait for the end of the year, we monitor what they are doing, let’s see in the next weeks or months what happens in terms of (readmitting) them to the system.”
Okay, I watched that twice and nowhere does he say anything about a lifelong disqualification. He's calling for a boycott. Boycotts typically end at some point.
He said this in an interview for this project.
