The world of sport reacts to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

[Fortify]

In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, more and more sports have followed the IOC's call to ban Russian athletes from competing. I will try to compile all of those links here for your information.

There seems to be a massive and growing backlash against Russia right now. It's hard to keep track of all the sports sanction as there is a stream of new stuff coming out constantly. All sorts of fighting competitions have dumped Russia and it's even going so far as FIFA dropping them from games. It's going a step beyond allowing Russian players to play under a neutral flag and all Russian sports people are being restricted completely. It seems pretty unprecedented but then Russia has gone full on crazy mode with their invasion.

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[South Park]

I normally see all Russian athletes showing their support for Ukraine, but there was an exceptional situation in chess. Top chess player Sergey Karjakin has expressed his support for Putin. Chess players are intelligent people, especially at a high level. I wonder what possesses him to write such a thing on twitter. Could play that he used to be a resident of Ukraine, he now seems to have Russian nationality. That could play into it, maybe he left the country there with a lot of fights. Otherwise you are not going to show your support for Putin for any reason.

When it comes to personal perspective and views then dont expect that everyone would really be doing on to the same path.We do have our own will and decide for ourselves on which
or whose would be gonna be supported whether being a Russian turns out to be supportive with Ukraine or would totally be that loyal on the place where they do live in.
I dont see for Intelligence to have some major role on choosing on which one you should really support off.

That is just the way it is, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and even if we disagree with them they have the right to express their opinion just as much as we do, after all the western media is condemning the invasion of Russia but I doubt the same is happening at China and other countries, so while the criticism against Russian actions may seem unanimous this is just an illusion since there are probably a lot of people supporting the actions of Putin as well.

[Smartvirus]

You know, Ukraine and Ukrainians might be the victims here in this war but looking at it critically, you could also tell that, Russians are paying a great price for the decisions of Putin. Fortunately, it's for the good of the Republic of Russia for which all Russians share a part but the price they now pay seems so much. The word can't even look at the face of a Russian right now, not to tall of doing business with them or even, sharing a table, bus or meal with a Russian. The funny thing is, if it were left in the hands of the Russian citizens, this war could have been ended, following the protest they've carried out across there country but, its Putin's war .

[DoublerHunter]

You know, Ukraine and Ukrainians might be the victims here in this war but looking at it critically, you could also tell that, Russians are paying a great price for the decisions of Putin. Fortunately, it's for the good of the Republic of Russia for which all Russians share a part but the price they now pay seems so much. The word can't even look at the face of a Russian right now, not to tall of doing business with them or even, sharing a table, bus or meal with a Russian. The funny thing is, if it were left in the hands of the Russian citizens, this war could have been ended, following the protest they've carried out across there country but, its Putin's war .

^ Ukrainian probably a victim but I think also the Rusian citizen is a victim too and you are right, this is a Putin's fight which is only his goal to have a more powerful country and invading other country makes them strong. A Russian citizen has been also suffered not only Ukrainian, look at those people who have a business for example in the gambling industry, I think not all investors in one company that based in Russia are all Russian, so they are affected by this Russian invasion, and sports now has been reacted too which is I think should not. It will probably have a postponed but wont stop.

[Wexnident]

I just personally think it's a pity to some athletes since there are some that are there for their passion for the sport, though a part of me do agree with the sanction since they do represent their country, Russia (whether they like it or not at this point in time). I guess it's just rather unfortunate since they never really chose what country they were born in, nor did they actually know that their president will, well, do something like this when they started representing their country.

[dunfida]

Even we don't like the idea of banning Russian players, it's good that there's pressure for Vladimir Putin. Not all Russians want the war and something should hit Putin's head into calmness state. But I don't how those things will be solved as there are now more civilians killed in Ukraine because of a Russian invasion. It's not as easy as Putin will stop the invasion. How about those innocent people being killed?

Putin needs to be stopped. Russia loves peace, I'm sure about that.

Things had been done already and there's no turning back now as the war had already started.We dont know on whats up on the mind of Putin on why he really that pursue on invading UKraine.

Whether we do like it or not there's nothing we can do on stopping it and all of those effects around which causes for russian industries to be heavily affected by this war.
Some would be saying it is not right but lets just deal on what decisions had been made yet options is not really that something possible.

[harizen]

I think this is extremely unfair to athletes and sports teams from Russia. This country has many good athletes, for example, the hero of the last Olympics in Beijing, the skier Bolshunov. I think that such an exclusion of such a large country from all international competitions does great harm to all sports in the world. And many champions, with the exclusion of applicants from Russia, will themselves know that they may not be the best in the world in their sport. Especially if they know their Russian opponent, who was simply not allowed to compete.

I hope this kind of discrimination doesn't last too long.

I have to disagree with the discrimination part. It's not what happening.

Let's take that as a form of condemning Russian actions without the act of military actions. Any ways to pressure Russia, or should I say, Putin itself, is necessary as even his soldiers don't want to participate to the invasion, they are bound to follow Putin regardless of their stand.

As also mentioned on my early post here, it's also to protect Russian athletes from a possible violence from the fans (maybe while in game) that don't truly understand the situation because of their "hate" towards Putin action. It's good to isolate those athletes for their safety.

[AmoreJaz]

Even we don't like the idea of banning Russian players, it's good that there's pressure for Vladimir Putin. Not all Russians want the war and something should hit Putin's head into calmness state. But I don't how those things will be solved as there are now more civilians killed in Ukraine because of a Russian invasion. It's not as easy as Putin will stop the invasion. How about those innocent people being killed?

Putin needs to be stopped. Russia loves peace, I'm sure about that.

Things had been done already and there's no turning back now as the war had already started.We dont know on whats up on the mind of Putin on why he really that pursue on invading UKraine.

Whether we do like it or not there's nothing we can do on stopping it and all of those effects around which causes for russian industries to be heavily affected by this war.
Some would be saying it is not right but lets just deal on what decisions had been made yet options is not really that something possible.

putin will not be stopping anytime soon. and their sports is just one of the casualties of this war. i believe some of these athletes who has the chance to get out of this country will move to another country for the time being. a lot of these Russian people don't like what their leader is up but they can't stop him now.
we don't know yet where this war will end up with. i believe putin is ready to be isolated by the world, maybe except for china.  

[decodx]

There are so many bullshit comments in this thread that I regret not starting a self-moderated topic. I would like to warn everyone that any low value and off-topic comments will be reported to the forum moderators as spam from now on.

Anyway, back to the topic ...

The International World Games Association Bans Russian and Belarusian Athletes and Officials from The World Games 2022 Competition.

The International World Games Association (IWGA) and the Executive Board of The World Games 2022 Birmingham Organizing Committee have both met and agreed, in the light of current circumstances, to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from participating in The World Games 2022 in Birmingham from 7-17 July.

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International Automobile Federation (FIA) will allow Russian and Belarusian drivers to race on under neutral flag, but no Russian/Belarusian national teams, no Russian/Belarusian national symbols and no international/zone competition to take place in Russia and Belarus, until further notice.

The FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem added: "I want to thank the Council members for their prompt action in deciding these measures in the interests of sport and peace. We stand in solidarity with Leonid Kostyuchenko, the President of the Federation Automobile d’Ukraine (FAU) and the wider FIA family in the country. The measures taken today recognise the authority of the FAU in Ukraine and are also aligned with the recommendations recently made by the International Olympic Committee. We are in active discussions with our members as we continue to extend our compassion and support in their time of need. We sincerely hope for a peaceful resolution to their intolerable hardship."

Billionaire Alisher Usmanov has stepped down as President of the International Fencing Federation (FIE), after the European Union (EU) imposed economic sanctions on him.

Shortly afterwards, FIE Executive Committee decided not to invite or allow the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials in FIE compettions, until further notice.

According to Bloomberg's report, Adidas, the German sports company, which been partnered with the Russian football program for years, is joining FIFA and UEFA in censuring Russia and that it's immediately suspending its partnership with the Russian Football Union following that country's invasion of Ukraine.

[boyptc]

According to Bloomberg's report, Adidas, the German sports company, which been partnered with the Russian football program for years, is joining FIFA and UEFA in censuring Russia and that it's immediately suspending its partnership with the Russian Football Union following that country's invasion of Ukraine.

That's unexpected but probably have foreseen that coming.

After all of the sports orgs banning Russians and Belarusians onto their events or allowing but through a neutral flag and has to deny the Russian/Belarusian flag.

Now it has come to the point that big brands, deals and sponsorships are coming after them. Apart from the economy sanctions that has been applied on them.

These cutting off of sponsorships are really going to take a huge cut and slash in addition to the sanction to Russia's economy.

[Peanutswar]

Even we don't like the idea of banning Russian players, it's good that there's pressure for Vladimir Putin. Not all Russians want the war and something should hit Putin's head into calmness state. But I don't how those things will be solved as there are now more civilians killed in Ukraine because of a Russian invasion. It's not as easy as Putin will stop the invasion. How about those innocent people being killed?

Putin needs to be stopped. Russia loves peace, I'm sure about that.

Things had been done already and there's no turning back now as the war had already started.We dont know on whats up on the mind of Putin on why he really that pursue on invading UKraine.

Whether we do like it or not there's nothing we can do on stopping it and all of those effects around which causes for russian industries to be heavily affected by this war.
Some would be saying it is not right but lets just deal on what decisions had been made yet options is not really that something possible.

putin will not be stopping anytime soon. and their sports is just one of the casualties of this war. i believe some of these athletes who has the chance to get out of this country will move to another country for the time being. a lot of these Russian people don't like what their leader is up but they can't stop him now.
we don't know yet where this war will end up with. i believe putin is ready to be isolated by the world, maybe except for china.  

Yet they are now talking about peace talk happening and its lot of burden to the athletes that they can't play because they are prohibited by some organization to play because of the decision of their president hoping that  they will come up with the good conversation so they keep peace again and back to normal its a lot of life getting affected on this currently war.

[judeafante]

According to Bloomberg's report, Adidas, the German sports company, which been partnered with the Russian football program for years, is joining FIFA and UEFA in censuring Russia and that it's immediately suspending its partnership with the Russian Football Union following that country's invasion of Ukraine.

That's unexpected but probably have foreseen that coming.

After all of the sports orgs banning Russians and Belarusians onto their events or allowing but through a neutral flag and has to deny the Russian/Belarusian flag.

Now it has come to the point that big brands, deals and sponsorships are coming after them. Apart from the economy sanctions that has been applied on them.

These cutting off of sponsorships are really going to take a huge cut and slash in addition to the sanction to Russia's economy.

Everything is targetting Russia's economy and the flow of money once it's cut off there will be fewer resources, I have this feeling that this is going to be a long war, Putin thought that he can capture Ukraine and easily established a puppet government and go on the next target, but the Ukrainian resistant will put everything on hold, those countries on Putin's radar should thank Ukraine for their gallant stand.

[Uang_kartal]

Everything is targetting Russia's economy and the flow of money once it's cut off there will be fewer resources, I have this feeling that this is going to be a long war, Putin thought that he can capture Ukraine and easily established a puppet government and go on the next target, but the Ukrainian resistant will put everything on hold, those countries on Putin's radar should thank Ukraine for their gallant stand.

it should be if the main russian economic cycle with this war is very bad, I have indeed heard this kind of news. Putin wants to seize this area, is it ready / planned before this happens bro? there is something interesting when the leadership this year, I am not as complete he knows fundamentally about war and the economic targets that you want to change, maybe you can include a link to the news source bro? for me to learn more, I am interested in being interested in what is causing the conflict that is happening in the current period, I hope it will return to normal and it won't take long in any case my hope is in terms of foam sports running again especially from the news that Op conveys above this makes us wonder and feel confused, and this also messes it up including the removal of sponsors in the football club costume.

[_act_]

Everything is targetting Russia's economy and the flow of money once it's cut off there will be fewer resources, I have this feeling that this is going to be a long war, Putin thought that he can capture Ukraine and easily established a puppet government and go on the next target, but the Ukrainian resistant will put everything on hold, those countries on Putin's radar should thank Ukraine for their gallant stand.

It is going to be a long war but I am not happy that Russia are taking over some cities, one of the largest city in Ukraine was even taken over by Russia yesterday. If the war is long, this will not benefit Russia, the sanction of today will have a very great negative effect on Russia later, the EU and US are doing everything possible to make sure they stop Russia to be able to fund the war which they are right. This does also goes to FIFA and UEFA, Russia has been suspended to take part in competitions which is not bad at all. The longer the war the worst the sanctioning even from sport organizations.

[boyptc]

According to Bloomberg's report, Adidas, the German sports company, which been partnered with the Russian football program for years, is joining FIFA and UEFA in censuring Russia and that it's immediately suspending its partnership with the Russian Football Union following that country's invasion of Ukraine.

That's unexpected but probably have foreseen that coming.

After all of the sports orgs banning Russians and Belarusians onto their events or allowing but through a neutral flag and has to deny the Russian/Belarusian flag.

Now it has come to the point that big brands, deals and sponsorships are coming after them. Apart from the economy sanctions that has been applied on them.

These cutting off of sponsorships are really going to take a huge cut and slash in addition to the sanction to Russia's economy.

Everything is targetting Russia's economy and the flow of money once it's cut off there will be fewer resources, I have this feeling that this is going to be a long war, Putin thought that he can capture Ukraine and easily established a puppet government and go on the next target, but the Ukrainian resistant will put everything on hold, those countries on Putin's radar should thank Ukraine for their gallant stand.

Yes.

That's what others don't understand and they want a full stop for Russia even without those sanctions. But that's the reality, almost every source of their economy is being stripped off for being part of world's economy.

It's really going to slow them down and every industry that they've been banned and cancelled, it will affect their economy which will make them think if it's still worth it to go for this war. But I guess, nothing will stop what has Putin started unless they totally lost it.

[FinneysTrueVision]

I don’t think discriminating people based on nationality is a good idea. This kind of attitude promotes xenophobia. I am glad the CEO of Kraken took a stand and said they wouldn’t ban Russian users from their platform and also said Americans would have to be banned if they applied the same standard.

[traderethereum]

I don’t think discriminating people based on nationality is a good idea. This kind of attitude promotes xenophobia. I am glad the CEO of Kraken took a stand and said they wouldn’t ban Russian users from their platform and also said Americans would have to be banned if they applied the same standard.

Users from Russia or Ukraine are ordinary users who have nothing to do with war, so I agree that the CEO of Kraken or other exchanges will not ban users from Russia or other countries.
As long as they don't use their account for any illegal thing, it's okay and they can continue to use their account properly without any problems.
We hope there will be more support to stop the war before more casualties fall.
With this support, Putin can see the consequences if he chooses to continue the war.

[Jasad]

I don’t think discriminating people based on nationality is a good idea. This kind of attitude promotes xenophobia. I am glad the CEO of Kraken took a stand and said they wouldn’t ban Russian users from their platform and also said Americans would have to be banned if they applied the same standard.

Users from Russia or Ukraine are ordinary users who have nothing to do with war, so I agree that the CEO of Kraken or other exchanges will not ban users from Russia or other countries.
As long as they don't use their account for any illegal thing, it's okay and they can continue to use their account properly without any problems.
We hope there will be more support to stop the war before more casualties fall.
With this support, Putin can see the consequences if he chooses to continue the war.

Not any reason why have to banned Russia or Ukraine user who as active investor on exchange market platform although have invasion made by Putin as Russian president, I see need  to know who fault and what community have ideas with begin this war invasion without have to make all Russia citizen fault with this war. I think not any way why have to banned all Russia use on cryptocurrency and behind of other side Ukraine president make joke with accepted donation using bitcoin, looks he not shy when ask to platform exchange to banned Russia users because he still asking donation around the world.

[virasisog]

I normally see all Russian athletes showing their support for Ukraine, but there was an exceptional situation in chess. Top chess player Sergey Karjakin has expressed his support for Putin. Chess players are intelligent people, especially at a high level. I wonder what possesses him to write such a thing on twitter. Could play that he used to be a resident of Ukraine, he now seems to have Russian nationality. That could play into it, maybe he left the country there with a lot of fights. Otherwise you are not going to show your support for Putin for any reason.

When it comes to personal perspective and views then dont expect that everyone would really be doing on to the same path.We do have our own will and decide for ourselves on which
or whose would be gonna be supported whether being a Russian turns out to be supportive with Ukraine or would totally be that loyal on the place where they do live in.
I dont see for Intelligence to have some major role on choosing on which one you should really support off.

This is certainly true. We could all have the free will to support what we want because we have different perspectives and principles. A person from Russia could support Ukraine or vice versa but that doesn't make them less of a person especially if they don't support their own country. I just don't see the point of discriminating against people because of their nationality when in fact, this war isn't cause by ordinally people who are actually suffering now.

[delfastTions]

I'll probably return to the topic about which OP is talking about.  

I note that I heard in the sports news that the organizers of almost all international competitions now began to exclude not only athletes from Russia from competitions, but for some reason this also spread to Belarusian athletes and sports teams.  As far as I know, Belarus is not participating in this military operation, its soldiers are not fighting.  
Why such discrimination?  
With the same success, you can safely exclude athletes from everywhere, for example, from Iran, Mali, Somalia, North Korea.....
And what kind of international competition will it be? .... Some insanity and idiocy.