Russia-Ukraine Crisis Consequences in Sports

[Pasolini 251]

6 hours ago, rybak said:

I think that they arent allowed to compete in athletics, but are in swimming.

but curiously events in Russia and Belarus count for the olympic ranking/quota, but so far no swimming event in Russia was "Green-lighted". Perhaps the russians will start to swim in other countries (Doha?) and finally will get their quotas.

[Olympian1010 7,990]

1 hour ago, Mateus Nagime said:

but curiously events in Russia and Belarus count for the olympic ranking/quota, but so far no swimming event in Russia was "Green-lighted". Perhaps the russians will start to swim in other countries (Doha?) and finally will get their quotas.

Russia is still in murky standing with WADA, which might explain why events aren't being "green-lighted" by World Aquatics.

[heywoodu 15,174]

4 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

The last thing which came to my mind tonight - how the ISR vs PLE boxing fight in Paris would look like???

Given the total amount of zero (0) Palestine boxers in Olympic history, I doubt that's going to be an issue. Unless I'm really missing someone who is qualifying for 2024 and doing so in a weight class with a significant chance of meeting an Israeli athlete.

Edited December 9, 2023 by heywoodu

[bestmen 2,827]

most of their athletes are Russian/eastern european , naturalized for money , they even say they are jew while they know nothing about this religion 

[rafalgorka 1,595]

1 hour ago, bestmen said:

most of their athletes are Russian/eastern european , naturalized for money , they even say they are jew while they know nothing about this religion 

Whose athletes?

[Orangehair43 251]

 

[Josh 10,661]

22 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

 

That doesn’t mean they’ll boycott Paris?

[Biathlonfan 625]

47 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

 

THIS ISN'T NEWS,WHAT ELSE ARE THEY GOING TO SAY AFTER MONTHS OF SCREAMING ''KEEP RUSSIANS BANNED ?'' there has been nothing stating that we're boycotting if there allowed in. Our olympic head is extreamlly reluctant to go against the ioc,so honestly it might be with a lot of grumbling but we're probably gonna be there with how few Lithuanians will make it in.

Edited December 9, 2023 by Biathlonfan

[Biathlonfan 625]

23 minutes ago, Josh said:

That doesn’t mean they’ll boycott Paris?

Maybe this is a Ukrainian pretending he's british,i can't see a british sport fan be so anal about this.

Edited December 9, 2023 by Biathlonfan

[Orangehair43 251]