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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI am torn over the Sochi Olympics
On the one hand i want the athletes to succeed and to have their day.
On the other hand i want the Olympics to be a failure for Russia and Putin, their homophobic asshole leader.
Not sure it can be both, but there you have it.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)should not be punished because of Putin. The Russians should not be punished either because their present leader is a dick. Remember we hosted a winter's Olympics when George Bush was President, a world leader as bad if not worse than Putin.
edhopper
(33,191 posts)Unlike Utah, this is Putin's Olympics. He picked the site and was at the forefront of the bid.
It is the Putin Olympics,
TexasProgresive
(12,148 posts)No I don't remember it personally. I'm old but not that old. Jesse Owens and his black American athletes went to Berlin and rubbed Hitler and his gangs noses in their own shit.
I would like to see athletes from all over with rainbow armbands. Oh and spectators should do the same especially those with children. Putin needs his comeuppance.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)avoid controversy. This, mind you, after the planning years were full of calls to boycott Hitler's Germany. The Olympic Committee sent a Mr Brundage to Berlin to investigate, Brundage reported that there was no discrimination against Jews or anyone in Germany, and he added that the false reports of such were a conspiracy by the press and the Jews to harm Hitler's reputation. The Hitler Olympics went on. Just as Putin's go on.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)You are in good company. I think the situation will take care of itself. The athletes will do well and the media will focus on the security which will be massive and on gays. Putin will not be happy with the stories on the security or gays. I wonder if the Russian people will see anything other than the state-run media?? Maybe they can watch on the internet for coverage from outside the country.
edhopper
(33,191 posts)from a dozen countries during the opening ceremonies broke rank and walked together, unfurling a massive rainbow flag.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)Less than three weeks before the start of the Sochi Winter Olympics, the mountains above the Russian host city are thickly covered with snow.
On the ski-slopes above the resort, local Tatyana Alekseeva told reporters: I think therell be snow in any case. Itll remain until February. Therell be snow by the ski jump theres lots there already.
Meteorologists warn that, rather than a lack of snow, avalanches and poor visibility are potential problems for the Games, which begin on February 7.
http://www.euronews.com/2014/01/19/russia-snow-covers-sochi-ahead-of-winter-olympics/
shenmue
(38,501 posts)I agree.
Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)Putin needs to know that his anti-LGBT stance will not be tolerated.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)But at any rate I will not be watching Putin On Ice.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I won't be watching the Olympics. While I wish the athletes well, two issues the anti-gay laws and how residents are being treated, keeps me from supporting the games.
I just posted this one:
A crumbling Sochi hides behind Olympic facades