It’s a travesty that politics are allowed to destroy the dreams and hard work of some the world’s best Olympic athletes. From Declan Hayes at strategic-culture.su:
Though hindsight makes clear that Valieva is being penalised for no other reason than she is a Russian citizen, there is something infinitely more puerile and venal to it than that.
Russian figure skating sensation Kamila Valieva first appeared on my radar during the 2021/2 Beijing Winter Olympics when MI6’s BBC outlet relentlessly, ruthlessly and persistently attacked the then 15 year old child sensation. For people of my generation, of Putin’s generation or indeed of the late POTUS Nixon’s generation, it would have been like attacking the great Belarusian patriot Olga Korbut, whose prowess still to this day inspires armies of young girls from America to Argentina, and from Algeria and Australia to take up gymnastics. Valieva is in that most elite of classes.
So what was it with Valieva? Why MI6’s fixation on crucifying Bambi and removing that purest of sporting lights from the lives of so many young American, Argentinian, Algerian and Australian girls? Just what is wrong with that sick outlet and the sundry British, Ukrainian and American Nazi flotsam that collude with them to poison all, like Valieva’s genius, that is good and pure in life?
Though hindsight makes clear that Valieva is still being penalised for no other reason than she is a Russian citizen (and a fantastic athlete the gods of Olympus unanimously salute), there is something infinitely more puerile and venal to it than that. As Russia Today informs us that NATO will allow only 40 Russian athletes to compete at the Paris Olympics, those same ancient Greek gods would be shocked how political leprechauns like von der Leyen, Biden, Macron and his “wife” are ripping to shreds their ancient charter where the Spartans and their equally formidable adversaries put aside their differences to enjoy a few weeks of “manly” sport.
Though Russian President Putin would have first hand experience of some of those “manlier” sports, he also no doubt looks back with fondness on such pioneers as Korbut, the Valieva of his formative years. And though the BBC and similar outlets tried to pile on Putin when Croatia knocked Russia out of the 2018 World Cup, I doubt Putin or any other Russians of his era were particularly fazed about it, Russia being a relative under-achiever in football and Croatia being the great over-achiever.
I loved Nadia Comăneci as a lil’ guy and that is some bravo sierra to give Kamila the figurative Harding knee cap treatment.
They do hate anything beautiful or uplifting that Nazi flotsam as the author calls the former west.
This ain’t no East German women’s wrestling team and she is beautiful!
Saw something that made me LMFAO, “doctor” Jill sold 250 copies of her stay up all night and read autobiography that everyone was asking for.
They really are that clueless.