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For Ukraine, for their Freedom and Ours ! - CSO
Argument for the exclusion of most Russian athletes at the 2024 Olympic Games
More than 80% of the Tokyo Russian medallists support the war of aggression in Ukraine.
Ukrainian sportsmen and women, for their part, are seeing their facilities, their training and their lives threatened by the very worst.
NO to Putin's army of athletes at the Paris Olympics
Our investigation, which was picked up by Le Monde, shows that over 80% of Russian medalists at the Tokyo Games support their country's war of aggression against Ukraine.
Ukrainian athletes see their sports facilities go up in smoke, their training seriously disrupted, their very lives threatened by bombings or mines, while many potential Olympic champions die on the frontline.
The argument below demonstrates how the participation of almost all Russian athletes in the 2024 Olympics would trample on Olympic values, disadvantage Ukrainian athletes and encourage politics in sport.
It includes a table of Russian medallists at the Tokyo 2021 Games who support Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
PLAN
Foreword: ……. p. 5
Olympic dystopia – the modern Olympics, a long-standing issue in international relations, but which has become essential for the regime of Vladimir Putin
A. The facts (Russian sport in the light of Ukrainian news) ..... p. 7
1. The Olympic ideal flouted by V. Putin (1st argument)
2. Impossible neutrality (2nd argument)
3. The Russian sports world supports the invasion of the war against Ukraine (3rd argument)
B. The Putin system ....…... p. 12
1. Soviet legacy
2. The Russian sports machinery in the Putin era: sportokratura , the sport in the service of Putinist ideology (4th argument)
3. Undeniable elements in common with totalitarian regimes…
C. Conclusions........…….. p. 19
D. Appendices…… ..........…. p. 21
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