There is an important distinction which must be drawn between athletes and where they come from.
In just over four months, the Olympic Games in Paris will be in full swing. There’ll be no “Russian” or “Belarusian” athletes competing under the national flags of the countries they represent.
Separately, in October 2023, the International Olympic Committee suspended the Russian Olympic Committee, following the ROC’s decision to seek to take over a number of Ukrainian regional sports organisations, hitherto under the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian Olympic Committee. Also, an online petition presently live on sites including DiEM25 and BDS , which apparently carries more than 80,000 signatures, calls for Israel to be immediately suspended from participating in all international sport until it “fully complies with international law and sports regulations”. Which assumes of course, that Israel is presently non-compliant.
German and Japanese athletes were excluded from competition at the 1948 London Olympics in the aftermath of World War II. The IOC banned Afghanistan from the Sydney Olympics over the Taliban’s dreadful mistreatment of women, and especially because of the regime’s ban on female athletes competing in sport and the Games.warrants absolute scrutiny. Therenders it selective, dangerous and undeniably wrong to exclude athletes and sanction nations with flippant abandon.
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