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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Forget neutral flags, they should be banned. Heck, Russia should be banned for doping, regardless of the war.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Good lord, the comments on that article. I guess I shouldn't expect any better from RT, but man it does really make me sad that so many people are happy living in a fantasy world where Ukrainians are the bad guys in this conflict.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago

Putting a lot of trust in some notion of integrity on noted good organisation, the IOC, here

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Ukraine should perform under the flag of Bandera

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

Ukraine having a normal one

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is that a big bargaining chip or something? The presence of the Ukrainian Olympic team?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Doesn't Russia already perform under neutral flags because of the doping?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

The original Olympic truce required everyone to lay down their arms. It would go against the spirit to selectively enforce this. Not that the IOC actually cares about the legacy of the games, they tried to remove wrestling at one point.

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