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The IOC is more than happy to try to let these things blow over because the IOC is profiting from a system where it understands that it can claim to be pro human rights. It says athletes represent the values of peace, dignity, but then it does not actually put substantive work in to ensure the Olympic Games truly represents that,
Pizzi saidIf the IOC's artificial conditions are designed to cut off the best Russian athletes and portray at the Olympics that Russian sport is dying, then you need to decide whether to go there at all.
Speaking about the upcoming games, the Russian president last year said
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Russia is banned from the Paris Olympics. Here’s what that means.
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