> PARIS, March 13 (Reuters) – Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo on Wednesday said she hoped Russian athletes would be banned from taking part in the Paris Olympics and their opening ceremony.
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> “I prefer that they don’t come,” Hidalgo said in an interview with Reuters.
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> “We cannot act as if (Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) did not exist,” the Socialist mayor said. “We could not act as if (Vladimir) Putin was not a dictator who today threatens the whole of Europe.”
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> Asked about Israel’s participation in the Olympics, while the war in Gaza is raging following the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, Hidalgo said there was no comparison with Russia.
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> “Sanctioning Israel in relation to the Olympic and Paralympic Games is out of the question”, she said, “because Israel is a democracy.”
I don’t know about the Paris city stuff, but when it comes to international things, this Hidalgo lady seems to have a lot of sense in her. Go Anne, you tell ’em.
But not Israel?
Replace the word Russians with Jews/Palestinians and everyone will consider this racism and demand her immediate resignation, but if they are Russians then for some reason this is normal
>”Sanctioning Israel in relation to the Olympic and Paralympic Games is out of the question”, she said, “because Israel is a democracy.”
The cognitive dissonance… this is just going to be used as fuel
Not even 10min have passed and two russian soldiers of truth are here 😂 alex and dj
Oh poor poor ruskies cant have anything nice anymore.. if only the world ignored russian warcrimes just like the russians do.
Them Russian tears make some great tea tho 👌
It’s so weird they are letting russia into sports again, ban them fully to the war ends, like wtf
I honestly think they should be allowed to participate if they agree to go not under the russia flag but the Free Russia Legion flag.
If they agree, a good statement against the current far-right russian regime, if they don’t, well, far-right extremism supporters shouldn’t be tolerated anyway!
Welllllllllll technically russia is band from olimpics
No that’s the way to burn the last bridges, sport shouldn’t be political
Who invites ruzzians anywhere these days, those cunts should be treated like trash
What about Israel??
Isn’t it another way to sanction Russia but not the human beings that have been training for the past few years for the event ? Like making them participate with a neutral flag ?
Also, the other bit of the article, why is it ok to do war crimes when you are a democracy ?
Too bad IOC are nothing but spinless cowards
The question I have is why just Russia.
Why not all nations that have carried out war crimes and are still under investigation by the ICC. Myanmar, DRC, Libya, Russia, Mali, Venezuela, Israel, and also Ukraine amongst others
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> PARIS, March 13 (Reuters) – Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo on Wednesday said she hoped Russian athletes would be banned from taking part in the Paris Olympics and their opening ceremony.
>
> “I prefer that they don’t come,” Hidalgo said in an interview with Reuters.
>
> “We cannot act as if (Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) did not exist,” the Socialist mayor said. “We could not act as if (Vladimir) Putin was not a dictator who today threatens the whole of Europe.”
>
> Asked about Israel’s participation in the Olympics, while the war in Gaza is raging following the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, Hidalgo said there was no comparison with Russia.
>
> “Sanctioning Israel in relation to the Olympic and Paralympic Games is out of the question”, she said, “because Israel is a democracy.”
I don’t know about the Paris city stuff, but when it comes to international things, this Hidalgo lady seems to have a lot of sense in her. Go Anne, you tell ’em.
But not Israel?
Replace the word Russians with Jews/Palestinians and everyone will consider this racism and demand her immediate resignation, but if they are Russians then for some reason this is normal
>”Sanctioning Israel in relation to the Olympic and Paralympic Games is out of the question”, she said, “because Israel is a democracy.”
The cognitive dissonance… this is just going to be used as fuel
Not even 10min have passed and two russian soldiers of truth are here 😂 alex and dj
Oh poor poor ruskies cant have anything nice anymore.. if only the world ignored russian warcrimes just like the russians do.
Them Russian tears make some great tea tho 👌
It’s so weird they are letting russia into sports again, ban them fully to the war ends, like wtf
I honestly think they should be allowed to participate if they agree to go not under the russia flag but the Free Russia Legion flag.
If they agree, a good statement against the current far-right russian regime, if they don’t, well, far-right extremism supporters shouldn’t be tolerated anyway!
Based
I thought they had [already been banned](https://www.reuters.com/sports/russian-olympic-committee-immediately-banned-ioc-2023-10-12/)
Welllllllllll technically russia is band from olimpics
No that’s the way to burn the last bridges, sport shouldn’t be political
Who invites ruzzians anywhere these days, those cunts should be treated like trash
What about Israel??
Isn’t it another way to sanction Russia but not the human beings that have been training for the past few years for the event ? Like making them participate with a neutral flag ?
Also, the other bit of the article, why is it ok to do war crimes when you are a democracy ?
Too bad IOC are nothing but spinless cowards
The question I have is why just Russia.
Why not all nations that have carried out war crimes and are still under investigation by the ICC. Myanmar, DRC, Libya, Russia, Mali, Venezuela, Israel, and also Ukraine amongst others