Category: Gymnastics

Lilia Podkopayeva is the 1995 world all-around champion, and the 1996 Olympic all-around and floor exercise champion representing Ukraine.

Of course she’s correct. The fairest and safest decision for the Olympic Movement is to exclude athletes from Russia and Belarus.

To: All National Olympic Committees and International Sports Federations of the world.

Almost a year ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia illegally invaded the sovereign and independent country of Ukraine, and began a brutal and unprovoked war. The genocide continues as Russian citizens are allowed to freely travel, leave their country and go about their daily lives with no concerns or guilt.

It is appalling and infuriating that the #IOC is allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to complete in the upcoming Olympics under neutral and non-political banners. Sport is anything but neutral and filled with more politics than anyone will admit.

We cannot allow their athletes to compete during the ongoing war, period.

Russia must be pressured from every direction to end the war and withdraw from Ukraine as soon as possible.

I appeal to all #NOC’s and #ISF’s of the world to unify in not supporting the allowance of Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete in the Olympics or sports while the war is continuing and ongoing.

We have a moral obligation to preserve the integrity of sport through humanity and compassion. We have a moral obligation to do what is right, not easier or politically correct.

EVEN THE GREATEST GAME IN THE WORLD IS NOT WORTH MORE THAN HUMAN LIFE.

Devin Heroux article.

A Liberal MP and former sport minister is again calling for a public inquiry into abuse in sport — and is accusing her own government of not doing enough to tackle the problem.

Kirsty Duncan said the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau failed to build momentum behind her efforts to prevent harassment, abuse and discrimination in sport in the years after she left cabinet — despite knowing a lot about the problem well before Hockey Canada’s handling of sexual assault allegations exploded in the news last year. …

CBC – Trudeau government dropped the ball on fighting abuse in sport

Current Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge:

“I can tell you that we’re taking it extremely seriously,” she told CBC News.

“That’s why we’ve invested $16 million in the last budget just to create the Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner, because we felt it was so important to have that independent mechanism. I’m also making it mandatory for all nationally funded organizations to sign up with those before the next funding cycle.

“So any organization that hasn’t protected their athletes by signing up with OSIC will no longer receive the whole funding. That’s the strongest tool that I have. …”

1. STANFORD (-)
2. OKLAHOMA (+1)
3. NEBRASKA (+3)
4. PENN STATE (-2)
5. OHIO STATE (+2)

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