Skeleton events at the Games were set to begin at 9:30 a.m. local time in Cortina d’Ampezzo. Heraskevych, 27, had been scheduled to compete but was barred from the start.
You don’t see a difference between a speech about solidarity and portraying war victims on your helmet?
There’ll be people applauding when you show up covered in pictures of the right dead people, but I don’t think it’s a very good idea to turn the olympics into a parade for such things.
What if an Armenian wears images of genocide victims when competing against someone from Turkey? Someone from Turkey wearing ancestors genocided by Russia? Someone from Russia with those genocided by Ukrainian nazi collaborators?
You can call all of these cases morally just but what good would it do to add that shit to the olympics?
You don’t see a difference between a speech about solidarity and portraying war victims on your helmet?
There’ll be people applauding when you show up covered in pictures of the right dead people, but I don’t think it’s a very good idea to turn the olympics into a parade for such things.
I really don’t see this as some sort of slippery slope. This is a clear war of aggression with no moral ambiguity.
What if an Armenian wears images of genocide victims when competing against someone from Turkey? Someone from Turkey wearing ancestors genocided by Russia? Someone from Russia with those genocided by Ukrainian nazi collaborators?
You can call all of these cases morally just but what good would it do to add that shit to the olympics?