Well, as the saying goes, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.It could also be a massive feck you, we won't play by your rules because we don't a knowledge them as valid. Nothing is beyond the pride of the Mother LandAs laughable as it seems, I could really picture something like that.
As much as I know that replying to you the resident troll is like talking to a wall, no. Just a big NO. Like Yougoslavia was banned during the Balkan war, Russia was banned for violation of the Olympic truce, it was clearly stated and documented whether it is within your ability of comprehension and reading or not. The ban recommendation was issued by the IOC in February 2022. The Russian Olympic Comitee ban was issued in November 2023, more than one year later, after Russian NOC took over its Ukrainian counterpart. You can rewrite the whole thing as many times as you want and it won't make it true.
No one cares about the approved they only care about the banned. Difficult position for special privileged Gumenik and Petrosian! Things have shifted very quickly. From some celebration to complete dissatisfaction and resentment and anger. Might be good for the approved special privileged people to keep low profile or reject neutrality
That's incorrect.
If you don't see the difference then there is a French saying for you: being dumb like a suitcase without a handle.
The ISU CANNOT ban a country for invading another (neither can the IOC). It's totally outside of its power and sport jurisdiction. You have absolutely no idea of what you're talking about. And it ends there for me. Have fun being obtuse and totally besides the point.
You can read all about the isu ban right here:
If you went to the source, then you must have found the IOC communication issued in Feb. 2022. I'm on my phone now so I can't provide a link, but as media and a former consultant to the CIO I received it by mail. It wasn't speculation relayed by press or the grapevine but a recommendation not to attend sports events in Russia and to not accept Russian athletes at international competitions. The violation of the Olympic truce has not happened that often, from the top of my head, the only ones I remember are Yougoslavia during the Balkan war and South Africa during the Appartheid. The Olympic Charter is hard to mess with as there are people payed to check each little breach before and after every OGs.
The IOC can only recommend a ban of the nations that are its members. All countries are not affiliated to the IOC, and the recommendation of ban cannot occur for other reasons than violations of the Olympic truce like doping, institutional cheating, putting athletes in danger, etc. Again I can't recall so many countries violating the Olympic truce outside of Europe beside South Africa. But that could just be holes in my memory so I'll stand happily corrected.
The argument given by the IOC was active support of the invasion of Ukraine. I'm not well versed enough in IOC rules to know if it's legal.
There, I agree. You either lift a ban or you don't but you don't make half-measures. You don't allow people under neutral banner (neutral my behind...) to partake in the Olys but not in international competitions. It's ridiculous. It's over or it's not. In my opinion, Russians should not be allowed to compete anywhere as long as the war isn't over and Ukraine totally freed. There is no use in recommending a ban to partially and arbitrarily lift it when what motivated it in the first place isn't resolved.
Did Dikidzhi train win this person while they were suspended?
Kind of half-assed, though, for not doing the same with the Women and Men. Like not making Kondratiuk their Men's nominee.It could also be a massive feck you, we won't play by your rules because we don't a knowledge them as valid. Nothing is beyond the pride of the Mother Land
I can only guess, but I think this means continuing to train with banned dopers, since I'm guessing the IOC doesn't want to take on CAS needlessly. Was Ponteleenko banned? Did Ponteleenko continue to train with him after a ban? Is there an outstanding appeal? If it's a Valieva-like situation, ie, she stopped training as soon as there was a definitive ban, the Petrosian was still eligible.
I don't think follow up information on the results and actions of the flagged sample ever hit English media, so indeed perhaps it's a situation where she was never banned and/or stopped training shortly thereafter. I believe there was some news she was planning to take time off (shortly before the doping violation) due to health issues, so I suspect it's the latter and she's simply not considered in the training camp currently and not currently concurrent with Dikidzhi.
It would only matter if she was suspended. She could be training with him every day if she wasn’t! Right now they could be working together on a program and it wouldn’t matter .
I cannot.
Now I'm picturing TAT bravely doing this interview from the fainting couch where she collapsed after hearing such awful awful news. 
needs to be deprogrammed.
I cannot.
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OMG. I just read the opening paragraph re TAT. Russia has really perfected paranoia and victimhood, political or athletic!
What’s the history? Other than Valieva failing a test? Other coaches in other sports have had multiple students fail multiple tests and nothing has happened to them. Eteri has one failure on her record!
They're still there? lol
