this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
37 points (100.0% liked)

news

23464 readers
2 users here now

Welcome to c/news! Please read the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember... we're all comrades here.

Rules:

-- PLEASE KEEP POST TITLES INFORMATIVE --

-- Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed. --

-- All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. --

-- If you are citing a twitter post as news please include not just the twitter.com in your links but also nitter.net (or another Nitter instance). There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ or archive them as you would any other reactionary source using e.g. https://archive.today . Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed --

-- Mass tagging comm moderators across multiple posts like a broken markov chain bot will result in a comm ban--

-- Repeated consecutive posting of reactionary sources, fake news, misleading / outdated news, false alarms over ghoul deaths, and/or shitposts will result in a comm ban.--

-- Neglecting to use content warnings or NSFW when dealing with disturbing content will be removed until in compliance. Users who are consecutively reported due to failing to use content warnings or NSFW tags when commenting on or posting disturbing content will result in the user being banned. --

-- Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the resurrection of Kissinger while he is still fortunately dead, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society. --

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

The IOC said in statement that Russia’s decision to claim regional sports organizations in occupied areas of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia, areas which should be under the authority of Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee, as members was a breach of the Olympic Charter.

Russian and Belarusian athletes will be allowed to participate in the Games as long as they do so as so-called neutral athletes, without an accompanying national flag or anthem.

The IOC seems to basically be just another political body serving the West.

top 12 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Frank@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

fucking LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

God I hate it here.

The IOC is one of the most corrupt, shittiest NGOs around. It's a giant city-flattening bomb for displacing poor people and funneling money in to private hands using ruinously expensive sports facilities that will never be used after the olympics. It should be disbanded immediately with extreme violence. Go back to running around naked in Greece.

[–] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago
[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Daily reminder Hitler hosted the 1936 Olympics. It was also notable for being the first televised Olympics and Haiti and Liechtenstein realizing their flags are virtually identical.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

Haiti and Liechtenstein realizing their flags are virtually identical.

The pre-digital world is a trip.

[–] egonallanon@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Also the first Olympics with the torch in it.

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

Well of course, after all the IOC has also banned the USA, the entirety of Western Europe, and Israel, so this is consistent.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Be funny if they won anyway

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

When it comes to wrestling a lot of them will.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago

Does this also mean that Israel will compete under the Palestinian flag or be neutral athletes 🤔

[–] CthulhusIntern@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Do the United States and Israel next!

[–] privatized_sun@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Finance imperialist sports corporations must be destroyed ASAP

[–] Cherufe@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

I need Aryna Sablenka to win the gold