Monzanator

Just now, LDOG said:

What about athletes from poor countries without funding for sport and, consequently, no chance to win medals? for example, some oppressed person from Yemen or Afghanistan that wants to make some statement.

Nobody in the liberal West gives a damn about Yemen ever since this country supported Saddam Hussein during Gulf War. They made their own bed 30 years ago and it's over - hence nobody cares about the Yemeni civil war either.

Just now, Dragon said:

By the way if you want to educate yourself on how the British conservatives were hypocrites, and just plain shits, back then google "The D'Oliveira Affair"

Here's the thing, I believe EVERY single politician in the world is a hypocrite one way or another

1 minute ago, Dragon said:

The year when left wing students protested so much that the Labour Party changed their policy from tolerating South African sporting visitors to actively opposing them,

Too late to rewrite history books though. The fact the matches happened on English soil makes it look even worse.

4 minutes ago, Dragon said:

No, you're wrong. The Labour Government in 1977 help draft the Gleneagles Agreement helping to isolate Apartheid South Africa from international sport.

At the same time, the Conservative party were still taking large contributions from people involved in the South African government,

Harold Wilson was the Labour Party PM when South Africa played at Twickenham in 1969? So yeah, both parties were in on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969–70_South_Africa_rugby_union_tour_of_Britain_and_Ireland

2 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

So, you have to admit that most athletes depend on politics to even train. There's absolutely no way sports and politics can be separated.

It's down to countries not politics. In every single country taxpayers fund the governments to begin with - and every single rotten politician in the world.

No government has its own money - they take it from their citizens.

Politicians without citizens they can take advantage of are worthless. Absolutely worthless.

5 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Absolutely right. GBR were one of the worst culprits but that's the problem with having a very conservative government back then,

They were too cowardly to put honest sport over dirty money.

The test matches were held when both Tory & Labour governments were in charge so both these parties must have supported Apartheid IMO.

1 minute ago, Dragon said:

Back at the start of the 80s the South African Apartheid government used to squeal about keeping politics out of sport.

Forty years later people on both sides of the argument now accept the sporting boycott of South Africa was very important in stopping the subjugation of black people in the country and allowing Mandela to become President,

And Great Britain was one of the few countries that supported the Apartheid government by staging the international rugby test matches vs South Africa

This should be moves to Politics Thread ASAP. Leave this thread to people who think sport is more important than politics.

2 minutes ago, NearPup said:

You do know why the team is called Chinese Taipei, right?

Of course I know why. I'm not some 20 year old millenial who doesn't even know where Taiwan is located.

Still nobody has answered my very simple question This tells me the political double standards are very much alive

12 minutes ago, LDOG said:

We already have something very similar with the existence of a team called "chinese taipei", so...

That doesn't answer my question.

Besides, Chinese Taipei can field a team at the Olympics while Crimea can not so it's not the same.

Yeah, I wonder if pro-political members here would support Russians going with "Crimea is Russian" message?

27 minutes ago, thiago_simoes said:

So, let athletes represent themselves at the Olympics instead of pieces of land with an imaginary boundary decided by politics, then.

Those pieces of land actually fund these athletes. If they didn't, Olympics would be only possible for children of millionaires (and then you'd have to ask where those millions would come from?)

14 minutes ago, dodge said:

So why are people against it then…

Because politics should stay away from sports, period.

Raising a fist didn't solve any issues in 1968 and it won't solve any issues in 2021 either IMO

If he keeps missing, he'll probably receive more

Golf Channel Polska just said Rafa Cabrera Bello has pulled out and Adri Arnaus will play instead.

36 minutes ago, Nickyc707 said:

I'm not sure that a country can enter more than one mixed doubles pairing. I think it's just sixteen pairs in total. Could have changed but I don't think so. 

 

 

It's direct acceptance for players who qualified for singles or doubles already. Any NOC can enter max. two teams based on combined rankings (so not only USA as defending mixed champions).

7 minutes ago, rybak said:

Looks like Patrycja Wyciszkiewicz-Zawadzka on 400m will watch Olympics from home as she didnt make final, same about Aleksandra Gaworska. First race after injury from Anna Kiełbasinska and already had very good result, 52.72.

Wyciszkiewicz was relay depth anyway. Likewise Gaworska who is like heats depth at best. Swiety, Holub, Kaczmarek & probably Baumgart make up the quartet.

This opens the door WIDE open to stage the Final 8 or Final 4-like tournaments in the Middle East or Asia in general in future. This is the only reasonable explanation why the 'away goal' rule is scrapped after 50+ years in business.

Say goodbye to Europa League finals in Poland, Romania or Turkey when you can milk the petrol millions and stage the finals in Saudi Arabia or UAE

More WTA drama in Ostapenko vs Kasatkina QF. Lineswoman snitched on Ostapenko for telling "bitch" after a bad point.

Then chair umpire fluffed the score in the final game in Ostapenko's favor (called 15-15 when it should have been 0-30).

Ostapenko won the match in three sets.

Ewa Swoboda DNS at the National Champs

Whoa! The hits keep on coming!

Camila Giorgi makes the first SF of the season taking out #1 seed Aryna Sabalenka in Eastbourne

Casemiro scores in the 100th minute. Why not. 2-1 Brazil.

Firmino scores for 1-1 after Ospina lets the ball through his hands.

Colombian players talking all over the place since the ball hit the ref two passes before the goal.

Three minutes after the goal and Ospina finally walks back to his goal