• Norah - She/They@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    You know that Russia wasn’t able to compete in the Olympics or Paralympics this year, right? The individual athletes weren’t banned however, but they had to compete under a neutral banner and weren’t in the parade of nations.

    Edit: I should have added, was disgusted because Israel were allowed to compete. Huge double standard there.

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      2 months ago

      If I recall correctly Russia is not allowed to participate because of their state doping program not because of their politics. So unless there was an Israel state doping program discovered that’s not double standard.