Sports
Thursday 30 November 2023
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“Russian athletes are listed as members of the Syrian team at the Pan-Arab Games that started in Algeria. Most of them have their names changed, two of them have their dates of birth [changed]."
Five athletes of Russian nationality are listed as Syrians at the Arab Sports Games, thereby violating international sports rules. -
“Russian advertisement depicts Putin as Santa Claus, using magic to save a child from having gay dads, wearing pink and LGBT indoctrination. Russia believes the proxy war against NATO is necessary to preserve Christian values and fight satanism which controls the West.”
Source: Twitter, December 27, 2022The post glorifies Russia’s legalized criminalization of, and discrimination against, LGBTQ+ people. -
“Both parties [China and Russia] unanimously agreed to … jointly oppose attempts to politicize sports and stand together to support the success of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing.”
China handed the Olympic torch to the Army officer who led bloody clashes with India, then issued a political statement with Russia as the games began. -
“The main role in these actions is played by the U.S. Department of State, which coordinates all the anti-Chinese activity on the subject of the Olympics by the non-governmental organizations and media it controls.”
Russia sees a plot rather than acknowledge independent reporting by civil society groups and news media. -
"Any act that attempts to politicize sports in the name of human rights and freedom violates the spirit of the Olympic Charter."
A commitment to human rights embraced in the charter's principles and the ethics code of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). -
"You have proved once again, that [the] recent words of our President [Vladimir Putin] about attempts to politicize sports, to politicize [the] Olympics, are senseless, when such people as you stand firm protecting the honor of their country."
The truth is that Russia was prohibited from competing under its flag because of flagrant, massive state-run doping. In other words, cheating. -
“As it has been reported, the coaching staff of the national athletics team decided to withdraw Krystsina Tsimanouskaya from the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in connection with her emotional and psychological state.”
Tsimanouskaya said Belarusian Olympic team officials attempted to force her onto a flight to Belarus. She refused and has been offered asylum in Poland. -
“Russian tennis star Medvedev asked the International Tennis Federation (ITF) on Wednesday to strip the accreditation of a Chilean journalist, who claimed that Team ROC [Russian Olympic Committee] ‘cheated’ on its uniforms at the Olympics in Tokyo.”
In fact, the Chilean journalist asked if ROC athletes felt the “stigma of cheaters” because of Russia’s past doping. He said nothing about uniforms. -
“Having seen how China is overcoming the coronavirus crisis, we are very confident that our Chinese hosts will ensure safe and secure Olympic Games … we can say already now with great confidence: China is ready.”
China’s problematic COVID-19 record raises doubts about the safety of athletes during the 2022 winter Olympics in Beijing. -
“They discussed vital bilateral and international issues as well as opportunities to cooperate in countering such serious problems as the coronavirus pandemic, and in other areas, including trade and the economy.”
The Kremlin’s readout of a Biden-Putin phone call omits touchy topics – like the arrest and poisoning of Alexey Navalny. -
“In Russia, there has not been, is not, and will not be anything that is associated with restrictions on rights based on race, sexual orientation, nationality, or any religious grounds. This has never happened in Russia and never will.”
Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has changed its criminal code to allow targeting and prosecuting minorities and amended the constitution to outlaw gay marriage. -
“People on tractors are working, nobody is talking about the virus. There the tractors will cure everybody. The field cures everyone!”
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenka recommended several unusual “cures” for COVID-19 coronavirus – vodka, farm work and saunas. Social distancing? Apparently not in Lukashenka’s playbook.