Sport should be political Neutral... but does it really??
Sport was always a part of Politics / war / and peace...
Lets talk about the OLYMIC FREEDOM this is what Wikipedia says...
The Olympic Peace (Greek Ὀλυμπιακή Ἐκεχειρία:, "Ekecheiria - Olympic holding hands") was an agreement between Greek tribes, said to have been signed in 884 BC. to ensure the safe running of the Olympic Games. However, it is not historically comprehensible. According to legend, a written agreement between the kings Iphitos of Elis, Cleosthenes of Pisa and Lycurgus of Sparta stated that all athletes, artists, families and simple travelers could arrive safely, see the competitions and leave again. The truce began three months before the actual games with the announcement of the games by the Elis region and lasted until the end of the competitions and the trip home. In order to renew the idea of the Olympic Truce, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) established the Olympic Truce Foundation in 2000.
Fact 1 :
The Olympic truce began on January 28, seven days before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Games, and will end on March 20, a week after the conclusion of the Paralympics in China. All 193 UN members passed the resolution on the Olympic Truce on December 2nd.
Fact 2 :
Russia breaks up with this UN Rulements a THIRD time
In 2008, shortly before the opening of the Summer Games in Beijing, war broke out between Georgia and Russia over the South Caucasus region of South Ossetia. In 2014, in the final days of the Sochi Winter Games, Russia annexed the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.
Fact 3 :
After the Russian attack on Ukraine, FC Schalke 04 no longer appear with the lettering of their main Russian sponsor Gazprom
(c) SCHALKE on their own WEBPAGE
Politics invested for a long time into Sports so why should Sport then not Political???
Fact 4:
UEFA will deprive St. Petersburg of the Champions League final due to Russia's attacks on Ukraine on Friday, according to SID. The final is currently scheduled for May 28 at the Gazprom Arena.
My club send a small sign last Night about the things which happens
(C) Pic Eintracht Frankfurt
This is only a small sign to the world, but it makes me proud. My club has been always acted in such a way...
Eintracht Frankfurt President Peter Fischer wants to take a stand against the AfD. "It is not compatible with our statutes to elect AfD," said the president of the Bundesliga soccer club with a view to the club's general meeting on January 28: "No one can be a member of us who chooses a party in which there are racist and inhuman tendencies.”
(C) "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"
Last Night they send again a sign which is maybe only a small step but it shows we want PEACE , we re against this Aggressors...
Im proud right now , and i still dont get it when still some say, the NATO is the Aggressor.. becasue it isnt, Not the NATO killed thousands of Humans yesterday, Russia did. Not the NATO broke up the European Freedom , the Olympic Freedom....
This act of war is an act against everything that Europe has shown in recent decades.
Russia's actions are not to be seen with the idea of re-establishing a USSR, but rather show old Tsarist actions. It's all about expansion with violence and without meaning. Ukraine DOES NOT PROVIDE any market advantage to Russia if incorporated. It can't be the "heavy industry", which is the goal in Ukraine, it's just about showing POWER, must Putin really have the urge to prove EGGS again.
I don't think so, since a large part of Russian citizens are also against a war in Ukraine. But he tries to hold this Voices in his own land under control....
I hope we are able to have freedom in a short and live long and prosper
