39 Comments on “Olympic Committee Forbids Athletes from Speaking Against Anti-Gay Laws”

  1. The IOC wants to restrict the personal rights and freedoms of Olympic
    athletes going to Russia by forbidding them from talking about Russia’s
    anti-gay laws.
    This is the EXACT same thing as supporting those laws.

    

  2. Yeah, they are gay only because you idiots cannot even ice skate to save
    your own life.

  3. If one country boycotts the Olympics, another will rush in to accept them.
    Even if they will ruin themselves in the process.

  4. When you do that, you are punishing the athletes. That doesn’t seem right
    when you consider they have dedicated their lives toward this one event.
    And the window of opportunity is very narrow for an Olympic athlete. And
    their is one more aspect, because of the fame that comes from being a top
    Olympic athlete there are million of dollar in potential future income at
    stake. I don’t think they should be denied that opportunity. Move the
    Olympics to Vancouver.

  5. To be fair, you did not make yourself very clear – “China throw people …
    out of the rooms ” I get it now, but the USA does that all the time. Under
    the guise of Imminent Domain, the Govt can (and has) steal your house and
    land, and give it to some commercial developer, and there is nothing you
    can do.

  6. But who can risk competing under such terms? And who would want to compete
    in a competition where your fellow athletes were under such duress?

  7. Devaluing others so that you can rationalize your unethical behavior is
    just about the only common “sin” there is. But thanks for helping to make
    the world just a little bit worse!

  8. Fuq Russia…boycott anything they sponsor. Organize another sports event
    in place of this and leave the Olympic committee and Russia out of it.

  9. Homosexuals need to put it to rest. The purpose of the Olympics isn’t to
    protest anti-gay laws.

  10. Yea so where was all when China had it. China throw people against their
    will out of the rooms but was IOC on that

  11. It would be so baller, so bad-ass, if during each event, the teams from
    America, Britain, France, all the big nations that support equality, if
    their entire teams held rainbow flags or showed some sign of silidarity,
    and forced the Olympic committee to choose either disqualifying EVERYONE on
    the top teams, or letting it go. If they went ahead and disqualified them,
    the other teams would be pissed they don’t get an actual competition with
    the best, and the world would side with the athletes.

  12. It’s kind of hard to just change the location of the Olympic games,
    especially since the location of the 2018 Olympic games has already been
    decided.

  13. The Govt is creating an atmosphere is which this thuggery & hatred can
    thrive. I would say that puts a lot of the blame on the govt. When Germany
    sat by while Jews where exterminated, it was after a decade of strong
    Anti-Jew propaganda. This is how Govt distracts from its own crimes, it
    creates an “Untermenschen” that people can hate instead of the govt. It
    creates a common enemy. But in German, Russia, the USA this is simply a
    false flag under which the govt commits crimes against its people.

  14. How about the decades of human rights abuses, a death toll higher than the
    great purge, or the occupation of Tibet? Yes, there is. It only ceases to
    exist when you turn it into something other than a sports competition. Yes,
    it can be just a game of cards. It’s entirely possible to enjoy a game
    without complicating things. If I always boycotted a country because I
    didn’t like something they did, all of them would be boycotted. If they
    simply want to compete, the location doesn’t matter.

  15. The internet is not a sovereign nation. We are not travelling to Russia
    when we comment on events in Russia. If you don’t like our comments, don’t
    read them.

  16. I think David is overnalazying this time. The IOC has restrictions on
    political and religious demonstration on games venues and surroundings, and
    has had for at least 3 decades. This was devised during the Cold War to
    assure that the games are about sports, not about (at the time)
    demonstrations of political parties or pro/anti some specific government.

  17. The Olympic Charter prohibits Political activity in association with the
    Olympics. But the charter also forbids holding the Olympics in any country
    engaging in gross Human Rights Violation.

  18. What part of “Russia signed the European Convention on Human Rights” don’t
    you get?

  19. The war didn’t start until several years after the 1936 olympics. Nazi’s
    were just a political party then, not the monsters we discovered
    afterwards. Russia is being that monster now. Boycott them and future
    Olympics, since this problem originates from the top of the committee.

  20. Ban Russian athletes from their own Olympics because then Russia would be
    punished and no other country.

  21. Fuck the Olympics and fuck these Russian politicians. Boycott this B.S.
    Between Chinese oppression of their citizens, this bigoted Russian legal
    system, the constant biases of judges toward their own countrymen and I’m
    sure a shitload of other reasons I’m too mad to think of the spirit of the
    Olympics is long dead (assuming it was ever there.. I’ve lived through only
    15 thus far).

  22. The purpose of the Olympics is to promote peace and good will through
    sports. This is not consitent with the actions of Russia. I’m NOT in favor
    of a boycott or in any way preventing athletes from competing. They have
    work far too long and too hard to be denied over politics. However, give
    the political climate and danger in Russia, given that it is ruled by mob
    mentality, I think the Olympics must be moved from Russia. Apparently
    Vancouver is the next best location.

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