Deciphering Russia’s sports ban/ Is it Israel’s turn?

Mehr News Agency, International Group: About 20 months after the start of Russia’s special military operation to Ukraine It has been reported that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended the national committee of Russia and Belarus on Thursday, October 20 of last year.

Therefore, based on the decision of the International Olympic Committee, these two countries are prohibited from participating in all Olympic and non-Olympic world competitions. were deprived The sanctions include: no international sports events will be held in Russia and Belarus, no flags and anthems or national symbols of Russia and Belarus should be displayed at international sports events, and no government of these two countries will invite to an international sports event. .

They first banned athletes from Russia and Belarus from participating in sports events, and after some criticism, this The policy was changed and they announced that Russian athletes can participate in these events, but they must not be under the flags of Russia and Belarus.

Then they make the flag of the National Olympic Committee and the athletes who participate in these international sports events from Russia. , they compete under this flag as “neutral” and the medal is registered in their personal name – not Russia’s. In the next stage, they eliminated the Russian football team from the World Cup.

A few months ago, “Thomas Bach”, the head of the International Olympic Committee, invited 203 countries to participate in the 2024 Olympic Games. which will be hosted by Paris from July 26 to August 11 (August 5 to 21). Russia, Belarus and Guatemala were not mentioned among these countries.

Really, why did the International Olympic Committee exclude Russia from all international sports events such as the 2024 Paris Olympics? , the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics and… banned?

A- Annexation of four regions of Ukraine to Russia

As ​​mentioned earlier, the sanction of the Russian National Committee and the suspension of sports of this country together with Belarus were carried out in October of last year, just when Russia invaded the four eastern regions of Ukraine. attached to himself. At that time, the Russian Olympic authorities accepted the sports organizations of Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk and Zaporizhia regions in eastern Ukraine, which were occupied by the Russian army, as their new members.

The Olympic Charter is a set of rules and guidelines for sports organizations that have been established to organize the Olympic Games.

Now the question arises as to why the Russian National Olympic Committee was not suspended during the annexation of the Crimean peninsula to Russian territory? While in 2016, Russian media reported that Crimean and Sevastopol sports councils were recognized as new members of the Russian National Olympic Committee, but the International Olympic Committee did not react to this action of Moscow as it did recently and did not suspend the Russian National Olympic Committee!

B- Violation of the principle of “the need to establish a ceasefire during the Olympic Games”

In addition to the annexation of the four regions, another reason for sanctioning and suspending the sports teams of Russia and Belarus is the violation of the commitment of these two countries that “the need to establish a ceasefire during the competitions” “Olympic”.

According to the Olympic Charter, during the Olympic, Paralympic and Winter Olympic competitions, the member countries of this organization do not have the right to start or participate in military conflicts and wars.

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In the statement that the International Olympic Committee published a few hours after the confirmation of the Russian military attack on Ukraine, according to the agreement of December 2, 2021 between the United Nations and the Committee International Olympics were mentioned; A resolution stating that any military conflict should cease from seven days before the Olympic events until seven days after, became known as the “Olympic Truce”.

Russia violated the “Olympic ceasefire” by attacking Ukraine just four days after the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Games. The International Olympic Committee, however, does not blame Russia alone for this international violation and has asked its member federations to exert “the strongest pressure” on the sports of Russia and Belarus. The reason for this decision was the military participation of Belarus in the war with Ukraine.

The International Olympic Committee, in its statement, said that it was fed up with Russia’s behavior towards breaking the sanctity of the Olympic Charter and violating the so-called Olympic ceasefire “three times”. .

More than 200 days of genocide in Gaza and the need to exclude the Zionist regime

The Zionist regime can rightly be considered as a perfect example of a regime that relies on terrorism and war crimes. This regime has used all methods related to crime against the Palestinian people for more than seven decades.

The peak of these crimes and genocide happened in the last seven months, where more than 34 thousand martyrs, the majority of which are women and children, is only a part of these crimes. . Despite this, not only is there no suspension or ban against the Zionist regime, but this child-killing regime has always been under the political, financial and military support of the West, centered on America.

Observers on the eve of the 2024 Paris Olympics believe that one of these channels of pressure is sports restrictions such as suspension of attendance. It is coming in the Olympics.

Not long ago, about 30 members of the French Parliament sent a letter to the head of the Paris 2024 Olympic organizing committee, demanding the Zionist regime to boycott this sporting event.

Recently, the American magazine The Nation investigated the possibility of suspending the Zionist regime from the Paris Olympic Games and wrote: “They did it with Russia and South Africa, why Can’t they do this with the Zionist regime?”

With a quick look at history, there are many examples of suspended countries, but the name of the Zionist regime has never been among them. Among these cases, the suspension and dismissal of the South African National Olympic Committee from 1964 to 1992 due to the formation of the apartheid system, the suspension of the membership of the Afghan National Olympic Committee from 1999 to 2002 due to the rule of the Taliban government, the suspension of the membership of the Russian Paralympic Committee from the Rio 2016 Paralympics following organized doping and the suspension of the Kuwait Olympic Committee from 2010 to 2019 because of the government’s intervention in the affairs of the National Olympic Committee.

The current situation of the Zionist regime is actually much more acute than the war in Ukraine against Russia. If Ukraine annexed four regions, but put it to a referendum, while the Zionist regime destroyed cities and hospitals and deliberately targeted children and women in order to advance the project of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

This regime always shies away from the burden of a ceasefire and accepting the conditions of resistance in the hope that by continuing crimes and making achievements, it will postpone the fall of the cabinet. This is despite the fact that the 2024 Paris Olympics will begin in early June, which means in less than a month.

Therefore, according to the Olympic Charter which was used against Russia and which emphasized that “during the Olympic, Paralympic and Winter Olympic competitions, the member states of this organization have the right to start or they don’t participate in military conflicts and war”, the international committee should ban Tel Aviv from the games if the regime refuses a ceasefire.