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Old 12-05-2017, 05:56 PM
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Russian Team Banned

From the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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Russia’s Olympic team has been barred from the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. The country’s government officials are forbidden to attend, its flag will not be displayed at the opening ceremony and its anthem will not sound.

Any athletes from Russia who receive special dispensation to compete will do so as individuals wearing a neutral uniform, and the official record books will forever show that Russia won zero medals.
Russia hosted the last winter Olympics that was heavily boycotted. So there seems to be some bad karma for Russia and the Winter Olympics. Look at the bright side, they will not have to cheat to win.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/05/s...T.nav=top-news
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Old 12-05-2017, 06:08 PM
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It was a state-sponsored program in which over one thousand athletes participated. The IOC had every right to come down hard on industrial-scale, state-sponsored doping. Fuck 'em.
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Looking not forward to the soccer world championship in Putin's mafiotic Russia in 2018...
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