Baltic leaders threathen to boycott Olympic Games if Russians compete

The prime ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have threatened to boycott the Paris Games in 2024 if Russian athletes are allowed to compete. This follows the International Olympic Committee's decision to allow Russian or Belarusians to participate as neutral athletes.

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[proselytizingorthodoxpente]

Sorry Paris, but I have to agree with the Baltics

[frankx]

How can the European Union talk about the correctness if they have even turned sports into politics and, moreover, into an explicit one...Punishing ordinary people athletes who are not involved in politics by breaking their aspirations dreams and achievements of their work. In such images, the European Union itself violates human rights and acts inhumanely with people, and no matter what country they are citizens of, it is primarily people ! This solves the fact that Europe, despite its ostentatious tolerance and diplomacy, is completely inhuman towards people .

[enkhyy]

The Olympic movement is about peace and games in a time of war and national devastation for Ukraine. Games mean little compared to the loss of life for thousands. Get serious about your international priorities.

[radicalPeanut]

make your own olympics with iran, belorus and north korea.

[laudimf]

who cares? US wasnt banned from Olympic games when invades Iraq, Lybia, Afganistan or Vietnam

[Lamin_G]

LOL, Since when did Olympic spectators miss much from the absence of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia?

And the IOC saying that Russia and Belarus are entitled to compete as long as athletes "are not represented by a flag" is a joke given that stripping athletes off flag representation has often been punishment for _violation of "sporting rules, "_ not for _settling "geopolitical spats."_ And, yet, the IOC parades itself as *apolitical* when it has been caught politicizing the games on numerous occasions.

1:09 How can canceling the Olympics possibly be "good news" for France, if I heard that segment correctly? Surely, France must have spent a good deal of dough already to prepare for the Olympics.

As for Zelenskyy's notion that allowing Russia and Belarus to compete in the Olympics sends the wrong message that "brutal military aggression is okay, " where was that sentiment when European nations were colonizing all corners of the globe, or during NATO-U.S. invasions of Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, etc., or during the ongoing illegal Israeli intrusions into Palestinian west bank settlements? Was the IOC not sending the "wrong message" then by allowing representation of nations guilty of brutal military aggression? Maybe the expectation is that the IOC should have double standards based on which offending countries can exert the threat of monetary blackmail and which can't.

[Hayastantzi]

Let them boycott like cowards instead of competing