French President Emmanuel Macron has stated that “there will be no Russian flag at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris”, but nevertheless believes the participation of some Russian athletes must be considered.
Source: Macron in an interview for a French sports newspaper L’Équipe, cited by RFI and European Pravda
To the question about possible presence of some Russian athletes at the 2024 Olympics Macron replied: “It is not up to a host country to decide what the International Olympic Committee must do (…) I completely trust Thomas Bach, the President of the International Olympic Committee.”French President Emmanuel Macron has stated that “there will be no Russian flag at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris”, but nevertheless believes the participation of some Russian athletes must be considered.
Source: Macron in an interview for a French sports newspaper L’Équipe, cited by RFI and European Pravda
To the question about possible presence of some Russian athletes at the 2024 Olympics Macron replied: “It is not up to a host country to decide what the International Olympic Committee must do (…) I completely trust Thomas Bach, the President of the International Olympic Committee.”
Macron also expressed his hope that “Ukrainians will be involved in this deliberation”.
“The real issue the Olympic world must decide on is the status of the Russian athletes, who have been preparing their whole lifes for this, and, maybe, are also the victims of this regime,” he continued.
He was also asked how to distinguish between Russian athletes who support Putin’s regime and its real victims.
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“Now this is the real question, and here the Olympic world must, honestly, express its opinion and provide guarantees,” Macron explained. “And this must be comprehensible for Ukrainians (…) This is the balance we must achieve.”
On 28 March 2023, the executive committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommended International Sports Federations to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate, but gave a number of conditions.
One of the main conditions is that the athletes with Russian or Belarusian passports must only participate as neutral individual athletes.
Moreover, the athletes and personnel who actively support the war cannot participate, namely the athletes representing the army or other state security institutions of Russia, as well as those who have publicly supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
It should be noted that these are recommendations, while the final decisions will be made by the federations of separate sports.
Earlier, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki criticised this decision. He considers it a scandal and a betrayal of the real sports spirit.
Before that, Nancy Faeser, Minister of Internal Affairs of Germany, condemned the IOC decision and called it a “slap in the face for Ukrainian athletes”.Macron also expressed his hope that “Ukrainians will be involved in this deliberation”.
“The real issue the Olympic world must decide on is the status of the Russian athletes, who have been preparing their whole lifes for this, and, maybe, are also the victims of this regime,” he continued.
He was also asked how to distinguish between Russian athletes who support Putin’s regime and its real victims.
“Now this is the real question, and here the Olympic world must, honestly, express its opinion and provide guarantees,” Macron explained. “And this must be comprehensible for Ukrainians (…) This is the balance we must achieve.”
On 28 March 2023, the executive committee of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommended International Sports Federations to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate, but gave a number of conditions.
One of the main conditions is that the athletes with Russian or Belarusian passports must only participate as neutral individual athletes.
Moreover, the athletes and personnel who actively support the war cannot participate, namely the athletes representing the army or other state security institutions of Russia, as well as those who have publicly supported the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
It should be noted that these are recommendations, while the final decisions will be made by the federations of separate sports.
Earlier, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki criticised this decision. He considers it a scandal and a betrayal of the real sports spirit.
Before that, Nancy Faeser, Minister of Internal Affairs of Germany, condemned the IOC decision and called it a “slap in the face for Ukrainian athletes”.
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The vast majority in this shithole country support the invasion of Ukraine, so every russian has to suffer for Putler’s actions.
“Russians” make a mockery of everything they touch, why on earth would anyone want them around?
why a degrading image of Macron?
personally I think that the West and the Olympic Games are deserved, given the rotten regime which wants to completely overthrow the international order, if you are a Russian athlete you are going to compete for another country, no one is neutral among the Nazis. In addition, the Urainians are at a disadvantage because some went to war and had their lives turned upside down.
honestly if I think about it I find it almost outrageous that Russians continue to play sports…
my grandfather had left to pursue a career in football, WWII arrived, he did it on an English submarine and his sporting career was over. the Russians have – certainly mistreated when leaving the USSR – exchanged your word, democracy for the stability of misplaced national pride and a little comfort and you will see that at the end of this road there is no only bankruptcy and dishonor. I hope you can repair and find your way back to dignity. put your energy into the desire to be free rather than harm wherever you set foot.
but hey, there are other defensible points of view… and then, for example, there will be Yemen and Saudi Arabia… a conflict and hundreds of thousands of deaths…
@focuuser
you don’t have a lot of acuity and you talk a lot of shit.
it is in your country that support for Ukraine is falling. how can you be so intellectually dishonest?
Fuck you!
You know fa about me, or my country. So go fuck yourself sideways.
The truth about Sir Foccusser is the opposite so you have shown where you come from. I’d suggest you open your ears a little more than your mouth.
You blather bullshit. Foccusser is absolutely right about what he said. According to countless polls, the majority of cockroaches support this war. Thus, like it or not, they must collectively suffer the consequences.
“French President Emmanuel Macron has stated that “there will be no Russian flag at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris”, but nevertheless believes the participation of some Russian athletes must be considered.”
When you emphasize the incongruous presence of a white-blue-red screen-printed textile and not that of those who have pledged allegiance to it and who will place their hand on their chest during the medal ceremony, then you deserve to die in a manure pit.
No orc’s athlete, no flag question.
That’s all.
I think the Moskali should be able to fly their flags in Paris during the Olympics but I would limit their exposure to only over the port-a-potties 😉
Typo alert!!! It’s ‘rags’, not flags. 😎
You are correct, thank you.
Why “over” them?
Maybe on a roll inside them…
Macron is an incorrigible pussy.
I’m reposting the text with a few corrections to make it look better in translation, because your answers blow my mind in terms of both content and form!
why a degrading image of Macron?
Personally, I think that the West and the Olympic Games have to be earned,
and given the rotten Russian regime, which wants to overthrow the international order, if you’re a Russian athlete you’ll be competing for another country.
What’s more, the Ukrainians are at a disadvantage because some of them went to war and had their lives turned upside down.
Honestly, when I think about it, I find it almost disgraceful that Russians are still playing sports…
my grandfather had set out to make a career in soccer, but WWII came along and he did it on a British submarine, and his sporting career was over. the Russians, who were – admittedly – badly beaten when they left the USSR, exchanged their word, democracy for stability, misplaced national pride and a little comfort… and now they’re going to see that when you exchange the right of speech for security, there’s only bankruptcy and disgrace at the end of the road. . and now they’re going to see that when you exchange the right to speak for security, there’s only bankruptcy and dishonor at the end of the road. however, i hope the Russians can make amends and find their way back to dignity. to put their energy into the desire to be free rather than to harm wherever they set foot.
but there are other defensible points of view… and then, for example, there’s Yemen and Saudi Arabia… a conflict and hundreds of thousands of deaths…
/@anonymous :
Macron also says under certain conditions, it seems to me
because I think some of them are military.
you’ll find some people who say that banning it altogether can be counter-productive… an example: the Chinese at some international competition realized that they were the only ones in the world still wearing masks and trapped by covid19.
some will say that if there are Russian athletes under a neutral banner, the Russian public will be watching and perhaps something positive will happen or will be done…
in short, the world isn’t black and white, and no one has half the information to form a correct idea of the situation. i don’t see anything that deserves insults.
(I’m not a particular fan of Macron, who can be a bit narcissistic and clumsy at times, but I don’t think he’s a bastard or a moron. he’s far more respectable than Trump.
not to mention that the war in Ukraine isn’t the only big danger…
He’s one of the people who regretted the Brexit and has always thought – like the majority of English people now – that it was a mistake. apart from wanting to deport your immigrants to Rwanda and now to Saint Helena, it hasn’t solved anything…
Boris who nearly croaked from covid so respectful of everything and everyone screwed him well. history will judge everyone.
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there’s also a lot you don’t say on ukrainetoday 😉
i saw some people spitting on Romania. Romania is going to train F16 pilots…
it’s the same thing with the Ukrainian deserters who’ve left the country. I heard one of them give his first and last names, and you could tell he was neither inconsistent nor a bastard nor an idiot.
It happens to anyone to “break down”, even seasoned soldiers.
and when you’re a civilian, you don’t know how to hammer a nail and all of a sudden you have to kill a men with a rifle, there’s a gap that not everyone can cross, especially in command without being ready for it, etc…
I understand that not all leaders are equal, and that some may even have remnants of the Soviet era…
among the deserters there are surely cowards and maybe even people who don’t feel Ukrainian enough to die for it…
there was a soldier who looked at the guy’s testimony and he wasn’t scornful…
Anyway… all is simple if you want 😉
Most of the backlash you got for your comments was the part about Sir Foccusser. You didn’t clear that up with your rewrite. You really should apologize to him.
Think the Macaroon thing (and yes I misspelled it on purpose) was the coddling to even have ruzzian or Belarusian athletes participate at all even under a neutral flag.
Device I’m on makes it challenging to try to address all you had to say point by point. But I will touch base on a couple.
Concerning Romania, I believe the point was being made that the country to date has not provided much more than humanitarian aid. If they do want to train Ukraine pilots in the F-16s that would be great. I don’t remember seeing them on the list of the willing but I could have missed it. I did look to see if anything was provided more than humanitarian aid, did not find anything other than that, that was direct government sponsored. (Has been back channel or individual support however.)
As to the extradition of eligible service men back to Ukraine. Government is looking at it in a case by case basis. Some may well be just that cowardly. Others shirkers self preserving, which I think aroused the most distain. Others pacifists or conscientious objectors. The point was made that many jobs in the military do not require killing or being in the frontline even. In the state of war which the ruzzians brought to Ukrainian soil every able bodied person is needed to eradicate the ruzzian infestation of sovereign Ukrainian territory.
Not all are like our Grandfathers whom gave up sports or the life they knew to serve during wartime. One of my Grandpa’s joined up to be a navigator. The other the military wouldn’t take for health reasons but he went to work building bombers.
Not sure what ya meant by the brexit thing in relation to Micron (again misspelled on purpose) so I’m not going to try to address that one.
But no, it’s not always so simple, however sometimes, when we take the time it can be simpler than we make it. We should be able to disagree without personal character assaults.
@ Bill B
thank you for taking the time to explain.
Most of the contributors here are quite blunt and undifferentiated, outrageous to me.
I often read some that I find unfair and malicious, malicious is already serious it’s more than inconsistent, it’s more than “intellectually light”.
and I have the impression that some are spitting in my face.
I’m saying that I find Foccuser lacking in analytical finesse and talking garbage. I could say it more diplomatically, taking oratorical precautions when I write in my own language before translating, after which I don’t really measure the “level of language”,
if you’re intelligent, which I’m sure you are at the moment, you can see that I’m not taking anyone for a fool when it comes to the quality of what I’m saying… in general, I’m just trying to widen the focus a bit… in misfortune, it’s easy to be self-centered and generally quite unfair…
I also happen to have little tolerance for injustice…
I remember after the Australian submarine affair (which I think you’re going to hear about again) scradgel said some crap about the French that frankly a Frenchman couldn’t understand… like: someone says americans are pedophiles, you understand that statistically it’s bound to be false and that the person just hates. well, it was the same…
I’m not a barf bag and my country isn’t a doormat !
(and what are we learning today with the Australians? that they’ve been screwed by Boris on everything, the price, the equipment, that it stinks of corruption and that some of them are going to go to sleep in prison….)
if not, to finish with the deserter, I think there were failures because the guy wanted to participate but couldn’t on the front line.
having said that, intellectually speaking, when you see that Kherson has been given away, that its leaders are busy embezzling money donated by the people of the West, that a country neighboring the fascists hasn’t even set up a shell manufacturing plant!
you also have to have confidence….
I can understand why someone would question the sacrifice.
Zelenski is absolutely right to say that corruption is a betrayal… of everyone, and first of all of Ukraine…
(I completely agree with your last sentence, I’m originally of a gentle mischievous and benevolent nature… I wish you a good day) 😉