Topic: Role of sports in politics - page 2. (Read 440 times)

It's the hight of word politics and those caught in this cross fire are the Russian Athletes, Billionaires and the Ukrainians themselves.  It feels so sad that this this happening but, I think the ban on Russian athletes is extreme.  They are crying with Ukrainians as the rest of the word too, owning a passport shouldn't sentence them as such.

Well, that is considered as the collateral damage for the Russian government's aggression on waging war.
I myself thinks a lot of sanctions are completely unnecessary, especially in the world of sports. But because people are too mad that Putin is showing no sign of stopping. This could be the only way to stop him.
The only thing that would stop him is his own people when they feel suffocated because of all the sanctions imposed to them.
Individual international businesses, athletes, and other Russian who have made business internationally will be 100% affected on the sanctions.

Sports is a vehicle for peace, unity and reconciliation. Sports can have that effect on the world. Sports regulatory bodies have always insisted that sports and polictics are distinct things and should not be mixed together. They now come out and do the opposite of what they have said. It's understandable that war is a unique situation.
So when these sports bodies direct their sanctions on Russia directly it is understandable but when they focus on the individuals who have little or no role to play in the policy decision of their government. These individuals are not politicians. They have no role for them to be collateral damage in this affair is unfair. Most of these players being ostracize for a crime they did not commit other than owning a passport.

Remember Lewis Hamilton had a difficult time pushing his campaign against racism and discrimination because they claim he had political coalition to it.  Players in the NBA were ostracize for taking the knee during the national anthem. Where was this kind of attention when Mesut Ozil protest against the persecution of Uighur Muslims. His own football Arsenal distanced themselves from the situation.  When  it comes to racism, sports regulatory bodies are strict not to involve in politics. If we go down that this path. I hope that going forward every "aggressor" will find himself where Russia is. I hope in the future sports bodies can remain consistent in the condemnation of things like discrimination, racism, and unprovoked aggression.

Sports can be used for many things. So far only one option has been explored! We want peace not war

Sports and music (I'll add another one ) are universal things, despite all the differences that humans have and they can make everyone join to participate.
But unfortunately, we also know that some of these people have various interests that make sports don't work as they should.
Now we face the war between Russia and Ukraine where Russia is trying to pressure Ukraine.
It caused a lot of differences and debates among the political elite until finally, some sports organizations decided to impose sanctions on Russia.
Everything has changed if there is an interest behind something such as sport and will also likely impact other things.
So as long as there are interests from the political elite trying to intervene, that will not change.

Agree, the government can be sanctioned but not the country or everyone who lives in a country.

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Sports can be used for many things. So far only one option has been explored! We want peace not war

So when these sports bodies direct their sanctions on Russia directly it is understandable but when they focus on the individuals who have little or no role to play in the policy decision of their government. These individuals are not politicians. They have no role for them to be collateral damage in this affair is unfair. Most of these players being ostracize for a crime they did not commit other than owning a passport.

In my opinion, sports should be completely separated from politics and wars. Most athletes are apolitical. If they were involved in political games, they would have no time for sports. I don't think it's quite right to think of athletes as a sort of bridge between nations in political matters.

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I believe that politics always take over sports. If a country is at war or in conflict with another country, how can they keep the sports channel run in true spirit when they are in conflict at a government or political level. As we have seen in the past, politics comes first and the role of sports is secondary and that's what we have seen when fifa and other sporting bodies have announced to boycott russians.

As it turned out, not only cryptocurrencies are involved in politics, the true value of which is decentralization, but also sports. Such harsh sanctions against Russian athletes have never been seen in the history of sports and many consider this decision unfair.

I feel very sorry for the Russian Paralympians, who obviously do not have the ability to influence political life in Russia.

There’s a good reason why sports exist, unfortunately it is being used in politics and honestly, there are so much politics on most of the sports especially in my country where athletes are being treated no fairly. Sports is a place where every country can showcase their talents, this is an event where you can find unity and peace, its just that many still want to take advantage of this.