Russia-Ukraine Crisis Consequences in Sports

[Illya 587]

17 minutes ago, hoversaBR said:

Too bad

Too good

[Dolby 754]

16 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

Yes, and that's it. So, don't try to justify this decision by mentioning that India is trying to help avoiding a global war. A neutral reaction right now only shows India defends its own interests and is not worried about Ukraine or peace at all. 

Yes, we don’t care for Ukraine that is why we are plainly saying Russia must stop violence. That is why we are sending humanitarian aid to Ukraine. 
 

Still waiting to know what concrete steps has EU/NATO taken. 

[prso1000 724]

This is not about India! 
 

it is about Ukraine and Russia. 
 

honestly in the global context no one cares what India has to say. Not a relevant player despite huge population and despite having nukes. I don’t have anything against India, but it is just reality 

[dcro 10,210]

It should be noted that Russia officially broke the Olympic truce, which on paper was set to expire on March 20th.

 

Even if all this gets resolved quickly, this leaves an argument for Russia to get a blanket ban on the next Olympics. Again, mostly considering that they were already on thin ice before any of this started.

[LDOG 2,471]

Just now, dcro said:

It should be noted that Russia officially broke the Olympic truce, which on paper was set to expire on March 20th.

 

Even if all this gets resolved quickly, this leaves an argument for Russia to get a blanket ban on the next Olympics. Again, mostly considering that they were already on thin ice before any of this started.

True. 

 

At olympic level there's no argument to defend their participation.

[NearPup 3,505]

17 minutes ago, dcro said:

It should be noted that Russia officially broke the Olympic truce, which on paper was set to expire on March 20th.

 

Even if all this gets resolved quickly, this leaves an argument for Russia to get a blanket ban on the next Olympics. Again, mostly considering that they were already on thin ice before any of this started.

^ this is important context I feel. Russia has gone through basically every "intermediate" level of sanctions already for unrelated reasons this half decade. The IOC has nowhere to go but a full ban because they used every other option already for doping related violations.

[Orangehair43 285]

8 minutes ago, NearPup said:

^ this is important context I feel. Russia has gone through basically every "intermediate" level of sanctions already for unrelated reasons this half decade. The IOC has nowhere to go but a full ban because they used every other option already for doping related violations.

I am skeptical that CAS would uphold a ban by the IOC on the grounds of breaking the Olympic Truce. 

[heywoodu 16,015]

36 minutes ago, dcro said:

It should be noted that Russia officially broke the Olympic truce, which on paper was set to expire on March 20th.

 

Even if all this gets resolved quickly, this leaves an argument for Russia to get a blanket ban on the next Olympics. Again, mostly considering that they were already on thin ice before any of this started.

The other two times they recently did so didn't really lead to consequences in that regards though...I doubt they will now.

[Wumo 3,024]

World Athletics has made a decision to exclude all Russian, Belarusian and ANA-athletes from Russia from World Athletics events for the foreseeable future. 

 

Upcoming events includes:

 

- World Athletics Race Walking Team Championships 2022

- World Athletics Indoor Championships 2022

- World Athletics Championships 2022

 

https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/world-athletics-council-sanctions-russia-and-belarus

[prso1000 724]

I am really sorry for the innocent Russian athletes. 
 

but I am also convinced it is the right thing to ban Russia (and Belarus) as it is one way to make the Russian public aware that something is going wrong. 
There are still too many people in Russia not even aware that something is going on. Maybe they will notice when Rusdia is banned from all sporting events.