Governing bodies are using weasel words, instead of the plain ones needed: invasion, war, murder
Photograph: David J Phillip/APPhotograph: David J Phillip/AParly last Thursday, overcome by the desire to do something, anything, however petty, to try to fight off that sense of desperate futility, I started sending out emails to the sports federations who had events scheduled in Russia this year asking if they were going to cancel them.
, and Rugby Europe that it was calling off Russia’s upcoming match against Georgia. A lot of the Olympic sports, though, were moving a little more slowly.in the next few months, said it was “closely monitoring the situation” but “at present, there are no plans to change the current competition schedule.
The International Olympic Committee’s executive board has urged all international sports federations to relocate or cancel events currently planned in Russia or Belarus, and told them totoo. It is a significant moment in Olympic history. The IOC’s creed that sports and politics don’t mix, repeated in that email from the FIVB, has finally been laid bare as the myth it is, and always has been. The IOC, the “Olympic family”, has been hiding behind this for years.
Other sports and clubs, like Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao, have been more direct in their sympathy with Ukraine.The IOC responded to all this by awarding its “highest honour”, the Olympic Order award, to two of Putin’s apparatchiks, the deputy prime minister Dmitry Chernyshenko and the deputy chief of staff Dmitry Kozak. The IOC had already given Putin his own, in 2001.
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