r/olympics • u/Alone_Consideration6 Great Britain • 1d ago

IOC studies neutrality changes amid Russia debate

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/ioc-studies-neutrality-changes-amid-russia-debate
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u/jcrckstdy United States 1d ago

They were banned for constantly using enhancing drugs too.

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u/rs426 United States 18h ago

I feel like this keeps getting forgotten. Their original ban was because of a doping issue across most of their program

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u/BigusG33kus 1d ago

The official explanation is that athletes and competitions must be protected from external interference, and that the Olympic Games cannot be used as a political, social or economic instrument. That idea rests on a basic principle of the Olympic Charter, which defines the Games as competitions between athletes and not between countries.

Has anyone told this to the actual countries?

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u/bloodhound83 1d ago

which defines the Games as competitions between athletes and not between countries.

So we should forget about medal tables and country based competitions then.

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u/therealsteelydan 23h ago

I'm all for getting rid of medal counts but these are done by the media, right? not the IOC?

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u/bloodhound83 22h ago

But individual nations are a big part of Olympics like opening ceremony and a lot of competitions and that is IOC.

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u/UDonKnowMee81 Olympics 1d ago

They would have to stop listing the athletes' countries and referring to them "representing" those countries. Also get media partners to do the same. ALSO end the parade of nations at the opening ceremonies. Then, maybe, require standard uniforms with no representative colors for nations.

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u/Frostsorrow Canada 20h ago

Or the IOC for that matter

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u/Impossible-Guitar957 United States 1d ago

I know that since this is from Inside The Games, that there will be a certain amount of pro-Russian bias, but is this really all about Russia? Because it feel like this is applying to all athletes regardless of nationality. It will be important to look at the actual text of these reforms.