2023-12-17 10:13:50
The IOC and the Games do not have all the powers. We have known this for a long time. However, it seemed to us that they had some duties. They obviously forgot it. Let Thomas Bach, who once dreamed of winning the Nobel Peace Prize and fancies himself a head of state, lie down before Vladimir Putin and authorize Russian athletes to participate in the Paris Games under a neutral banner, on the condition of not having supported the war and having no connection with the army, is not surprising.
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Showing allegiance to the powerful is yet another admission of weakness in the recent history of the IOC, already humiliated in February 2022 when Russia, also ostracized for state doping, invaded Ukraine in the middle of the Olympic truce. Bach today loves power too much to stoop to listening to the sports people, thus forgetting where they come from, neglecting the political recovery that Putin will not fail to orchestrate with “his” Russians present in Paris.
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