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minus-squaremuddi [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up48arrow-down8·1 year agoIs that a big bargaining chip or something? The presence of the Ukrainian Olympic team?
minus-squareTrudge [Comrade]@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down1·1 year agoNo serious athlete will want mickey mouse medals if the real competition isn’t there.
minus-squarepancakes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-down6·edit-21 year agoI mean, having Ukraine boycott the Olympics isn’t a great look for the Olympics.
minus-squarePerCarita@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoThe IOC is not a great look for the Olympics. The organisation is cancerous, just like FIFA
minus-squarekrolden@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·1 year agodidnt a bunch of people boycott it when china was hosting it?
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoYeah because the Olympic committee are a bunch of idiots. They keep saying that the Olympics are not political, while being obviously political. Allowing China to host was a political decision. It showed support for China, no matter how much the Olympic committee said it didn’t. Morons the lot of them.
Is that a big bargaining chip or something? The presence of the Ukrainian Olympic team?
No serious athlete will want mickey mouse medals if the real competition isn’t there.
I mean, having Ukraine boycott the Olympics isn’t a great look for the Olympics.
The IOC is not a great look for the Olympics. The organisation is cancerous, just like FIFA
didnt a bunch of people boycott it when china was hosting it?
Yeah because the Olympic committee are a bunch of idiots. They keep saying that the Olympics are not political, while being obviously political.
Allowing China to host was a political decision. It showed support for China, no matter how much the Olympic committee said it didn’t.
Morons the lot of them.