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Beau says:
The Olympic Committee excludes Russia and Belarus from the games, allowing athletes to compete under a neutral flag, sparking international political consequences.
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Insight into the potential implications on future international sporting events.
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Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Beau again.
So today we are going to talk about Russia and Belarus
and the Olympics and a truce.
So news has come out that the Olympic Committee has basically
decided that Russia and Belarus will not be welcome at next
year's games in Paris.
They won't be invited.
Now, the athletes themselves, they can come participate,
but they have to do it under a neutral flag.
Russia and Belarus will not be invited officially.
Obviously, Russia is upset about this.
Ukraine is too, because they don't even
think that the athletes should be able to participate
under a neutral flag.
They just feel like they shouldn't be allowed to participate at all.
There's an interesting tradition, and it goes back to the 700s, BC.
It was revived in the early 90s, a truce while the Olympics are going on, the period surrounding
the Olympics.
Now back in the 700s, I want to say 770-ish BC, the reason the truce existed then was
to make sure that the city sponsoring and hosting the games wasn't attacked and people
could travel back and forth and there were just less problems, all in the spirit of the
games.
It was brought back in the 90s, early 90s, and since then, countries have pretty much
helped to it.
In fact, it's only been violated three times.
In 2008, with the Russo-Georgian War, in 2014, when Russia went into Crimea, and then in
2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine most recently. Now there is there's a lot of
time between now and then. The the games don't start until July 26th and things
in theory could change, but traditionally the invitations go out
about a year in advance and there aren't a lot of changes once that happens. So it
seems unlikely that we will see a Russian team or one from Belarus. So this
This is something that was very common during the Cold War, this type of, say, international
political consequences for actions like this.
It is, it's meant to be an insult.
It's meant to punish the Russian government and Belarus for siding with them.
As we re-engage with great powers and near peers, expect to see more of this kind of
international political posturing as we move towards a world that is a little bit more
multipolar.
Anyway, it's just a thought.
y'all have a good day.
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