And unlike 1980 there isn’t a convenient Olympics being held in Moscow to boycott, so the next best thing is prevent their athletes who have been caught time and again being involved in so many state sponsored drug scandals as well, from enjoying the privilege of international competition while their country continues its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine and the murder of thousands of civilians.

I do watch for the quality of games. I'm not so interested in watching Andorra Vs. Qatar.

Just a joke… chill bro

That's interesting to say the least

Meldonium was a highly arbitrary addition to the WADA list in the first place. It’s a heart and brain circulation drug easily obtainable without a prescription in that part of the world that was only added in 2016. Not saying that there should have been no suspension, but 4 years was really fucking harsh imo.

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What are you on about, we need to see games like Peru vs Iran or the other famous jawdropping games like Ecuador vs Thailand

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Yep, 200 odd countries in the world. 1/4:at the world cup. All they are doing is letting more shit teams enter. It makes the competition worse, not better overall. Its already dragged out over a month. Now what ! It's not like they ain't already making a shit ton of cash from the event, they need more. They need your money

The ruined the world cup

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There is a world of difference between boycotting an Olympics games held in the Capital of a country invading others, and to refuse to host that countries athletes in an Olympiad held elsewhere. One is a political stance, the other is just racist/nationalist.

We boycotted the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow, but the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid welcomed Soviet Athletes with open arms. Who would have thought that we could learn a thing or two from 1980's America...

We still make movies about what happened in the 1980 Winter Games

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"countries I invade are evil because of things I made up and admitted to making up after "

Also is Iraq the only country that got invaded in the last 20 years ?

Redditor moment

Why those 4?

Are you saying it's better to invade a country if it's not expanding a countries borders?

Personally invading to expand your national borders makes more sense than doing so for WMDs you knew weren't there.

Superior in what way? Funner more exciting games? Possibly but not superior players or tactical structure.

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You mean we had a choice to call it the “Dick flop” and we chose “Fosbury flop” for alliteration!? Never before have I been so disappointed in humanity

That's actually pretty cool. Soccer is boring as shit, but that's pretty cool for its premier tournament.

Now imagine if he had elite talent on his wing his whole career

“Did the guy in lane six just scream “shake and bake”?

Because they can’t prove it? Yea, that’s absolutely bizarre. If you are accused of a crime but nobody can prove it, they don’t just give you a reduced sentence.