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debunking Olympic myths since 2006

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@SqSehrish Nonsense, you find a puzzle off a website and never respond to a right answer. Blocked.

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@emmiiireal So tedious. If you get the right answer it is never acknowledged.

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@SqSehrish None of them are carrying any weight. The weights are supported by the poles.

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@SqSehrish One move gets 580

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@SqSehrish @__Libra1 411

[Global Athlete @GlobalAthleteHQ]

“But when you allow to compete to athletes who are dedicating their wins to Putin, it's nothing about peace. It's just increasing scale of war” @heraskevych @CNN @iocmedia

[insidethegames @insidethegames]

Ukraine has strongly condemned the IOC’s provisional reinstatement of the Russian Olympic Committee, calling the decision “shameful” and warning it sends the wrong message while the war continues.

The IOC said Russian athletes returning to international competition must still meet all anti-doping requirements, while decisions on the Russian flag and anthem remain under review.

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[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Finally, someone is holding the International Olympic Committee accountable.

The IOC has spent years pretending that "neutral" status somehow separates russian athletes from the regime waging the largest war in Europe since World War II. Now, after restoring the russian Olympic Committee, it is facing consequences.

Estonia is calling on the European Commission to suspend EU funding to the IOC, arguing that sport must never become a backdoor for normalizing aggression. That's exactly right. Organizations that choose appeasement over principle should not expect European taxpayers to finance their hypocrisy.

[NOlympics LA @NOlympicsLA]

Reminder that the LA28 Olympics and Paralympics are scheduled to start in mid July and end in late August, which is the stupidest, most dangerous time you could choose. Of course Casey Wasserman and Karen Bass don’t give a single shit about anyone who lives here or public health

[NOlympics LA @NOlympicsLA]

LA is on fire again. 2,600 acres and growing

https://t.co/4SLdhdSb4p

[Global Athlete @GlobalAthleteHQ]

"This decision represents a fundamental departure from the principles of Olympism. By welcoming Russia back into the Olympic fold despite its history of state-sponsored doping and its ongoing war against Ukraine, the IOC has chosen to rewrite, to lower, its own standards for stakeholder accountability” Global Athlete via @Reuters @karolosgrohmann @iocmedia

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@renabaddie_ @SqSehrish 5

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@duncanjourno @paugasol @NBA @iocmedia @Olympics A $10000 'grant' to 'support' athletes during and 'beyond' their sporting career! I guess some brain dead Olympians will see this as a move towards some meagre compensation rather than the typically hypocritical Olympic insult it is.

[NOlympics LA @NOlympicsLA]

Who could have predicted something called "the Olympic Wage" would give great PR to the Olympics before being rug-pulled by city leaders?

Like every attempt to "reform" the Olympics: Announced w/ great aplomb, lots of press then "benefits" vaporize before anything is improved

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@hicasamadim Another egotist wanting to show off

[Save Lea Marshes 🍃💚🍃 @SaveLeaMarshes]

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@NOlympicsLA Lazy churnalism

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This is a line you’ll see repeated by every LA official, from City Council, Board of Supervisors, the Mayor to LA28 and local media. It’s lazy and stupid and assumes people in LA are not paying attention.

Don’t repeat this bullshit.

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@insidethegames It would be news if she said she thought there would be problems! This is just a reprint of a Press Release.

[NOlympics LA @NOlympicsLA]

Reminder that no one in Pasadena, or anywhere in LA County, got a vote on the World Cup or Olympics.

No buy-in from the public on whether we want tanks, military surveillance, more ICE or to be financially ruined by these mega events.

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