Russian Athletes Got Really Screwed Over These Olympics

Roy Batty
Daily Stormer
February 8, 2018

The Russians were dealt a shitty hand. The International Olympics Committee basically wanted to ban the whole country from competing in the games. The excuse given was that it was part of an “anti-doping” campaign.

Now, like most things nowadays, the Olympics are politicized. I’m sure that many Russian athletes do in fact use steroids. But I also suspect that China is growing genetic super athletes in pods on an industrial scale.

China hasn’t gotten the ban-hammer though, but Russia has. Probably because of the Russian intervention in Syria. Pressure was put on the IOC to ban Russia, but then the South Koreans complained that no one would watch the Olympics if one of the top competitors got banned so they came up with a compromise.

The IOC said that some Russian athletes could compete, but that they wouldn’t be allowed team uniforms or to officially represent their country. They also banned most of Russia’s top athletes.

You don’t have to be on Russia’s side in all of this to realize that this was a deliberate slap in the face – a way of punishing Russia.

Anyways, going into this, Russia had an option – they could either boycott the Olympics or appeal the decision. They went with the latter and now we know the result.

New York Times:

Olympics officials first learned about Russia’s state-backed doping program — and how it had corrupted the results of several Winter and Summer Games — in May 2016. Now, only two days before the opening ceremony for the Pyeongchang Games, the eligibility of many Russian athletes remains uncertain, creating confusion and mistrust across several sports.

Forty-seven Russian athletes who were barred for violating antidoping rules have filed appeals with the sports world’s highest appeals court to gain admission to the Games, including 15 athletes and coaches who joined the case on Wednesday. The court is expected to hold a hearing on those cases on Thursday, the day preliminary competition begins at the Olympics.

Thursday afternoon, the court announced that an additional six athletes and seven coaches, doctors and support staff had filed appeals.

A final ruling on their eligibility may be made as late as Friday morning here — hours before the opening ceremony.

After completing its own prolonged investigations that reiterated what had been known for more than a year, the I.O.C. in December barred Russia’s Olympic committee from the Games and prohibited all insignia linked to the country. Yet in an effort to avoid punishing athletes who did not cheat, the I.O.C. later cleared more than 160 athletes it determined to be clean to participate as “Olympic Athletes from Russia.” 

Russia continues to deny the existence of a state-sponsored doping program.

Russia shouldn’t have blinked. Now they’ve got athletes waiting right until the last moment to hear if they’re going to be allowed to compete. It’s a nail-biter and a total shitshow.

They should have done what that North Koreans did instead.

Threaten to nuke America, that is.

I don’t hear anything about banning North Korea’s team or preventing them from waving their flag.

Meanwhile the Russians have to wear a grey Virgin uniform with a gay little badge.

Let that be a lesson to the Russkies. You blinked, you choked, you fucked up. You should have gone all in like the North Koreans.