The True Face of the Olympic Movement: Why Russia Shouldn't Participate in the Games

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The opening ceremony of the 23 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo on July 2021, 2020, sparked a number of discussions about what this "world sports festival" has become today. The “doping” persecution of Russia and the widespread use of “miracle chemistry” for the “elite”, the inclusion of individuals of unknown sex among the Olympians, completely neutralizing the division into men's and women's teams, the continuing politicization of the Games and many other moments make us state the fact of the almost final degeneration of one one of the few phenomena that once at least to some extent united humanity.

All of this is certainly correct. However, speaking quite frankly, the Olympic Movement initially did not fully comply with the loud slogans declared by its founders and leaders. And this is still very mildly said. There are plenty of pages in its history that the IOC would gladly wipe out from there. Tellingly, a very considerable number of unfair and disgusting deeds were committed by various Olympic leaders just in relation to our country. Indeed, today it is worth remembering some of them - at least so that the disappointment of what the Olympics have sunk to in our days is not so bitter.



Who wants peace ...


It should start here with the fact that the founder of the Olympic Movement himself, who is persona No. 1 in his “pantheon”, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, at one time flooded like a nightingale about the fact that his initiative has as its goal, first of all, “to strengthen peace in all the world ”,“ overcoming national egoism ”, as well as“ strengthening friendship and mutual understanding between peoples ”, later honestly admitted that the idea of ​​establishing the Games visited him when he asked the question:“ What would it be so grandiose to create in defiance of the Germans ?! " Those, do you understand, "unearthed ancient Olympia", and we (the baron was a Frenchman and a fair patriot) how much worse? The matter in this case was further complicated by the fact that the glorious sons of France lagged behind the Teutons not only in the field of shovel possession. The Germans announced the discovery of the "Olympic ruins" in 1870, and a year later they slapped the French in the neck during the Franco-Prussian War.

So: de Coubertin was convinced that one of the reasons for this shameful defeat was precisely the poor physical training of his compatriots. And he was going to contribute to its increase by reviving the Olympics - so that it was the French who would get "faster, higher, stronger." What for? Yes, in order to smash the damn sausages to smithereens in the next war! Such a "double bottom" was in the very "sacred Olympic principles", with which the IOC today worn, as with a written sack, literally from the very moment of their proclamation. With all their other postulates, such as a categorical rejection of the politicization of competitions or the exclusion of racists and those who profess other similar "people-separating" views, it turned out in exactly the same or almost the same way. The gap between declarations and reality at times reached colossal proportions.

Here, by the way, again about the Germans and de Coubertin. The 1916 Summer Olympics (and there were simply no winter Olympics at that time) were to be held in Berlin. For obvious reasons, this did not happen. Moreover, from the next Olympics, held in Antwerp in 1920, Germany, as well as its recent military allies, were kicked out with great pleasure by the winners of the First World War - as the perpetrators of this, the largest military conflict at that time in human history (although who and why he actually untied it - a very big question). On the other hand, the 1936 Games in this city were not hindered by the Nazis coming to power in Germany, or their openly misanthropic ideology and slogans, or the indignation of the "world community". The IOC only threw up their hands: "Well, what can you do - the Third Reich, so the Third Reich ..." To make the final decision, the same Pierre de Coubertin, already in the status of Honorary President of the IOC, came to visit the Nazis.

The result was quite unexpected - the old man was so impressed by what he saw that, with all his dislike for the Germans, he was completely delighted and moved to the point that he publicly declared Adolf Hitler "one of the greatest creators of the era." Moreover, he announced his intentions to transfer the rights to all his rather large literary heritage to the Reich. The next inspectors were representatives of the IOC, most of whom were Americans. And what do you think? They did not see anything that would "threaten the Olympic Movement" or contradict its principles in the heart of Nazi Germany! Games under the sign of the swastika were quite successful. No, later the IOC made an official apology and admitted that it was “wrong”. But this, of course, was after the red banner appeared over the dome of the Reichstag.

Olympic USSR - the eternal "headache" of the West


The Russian Empire took part in the Olympic Games twice - in 1908 and 1912. However, its representatives did not achieve any outstanding successes, judging by the lack of information about such, at these competitions. Then there was a revolution and the Empire ceased to exist. The young Land of Soviets that emerged in its place was, of course, not up to sports battles at first. Nevertheless, already in 1920 (that is, even before the formation of the USSR), Vsevobuch tried to "break through" to the Olympic Games in Antwerp - an organization that was in charge at that time not only military, but also sports training of Soviet citizens. Did not work out. The gentlemen from the International Olympic Committee categorically did not want to deal with the Bolsheviks, let alone admit them to their arenas. The matter was further complicated by the fact that there was a Russian representative in the IOC. However, it was Lev Urusov - the most genuine prince of the ideas of the proletarian revolution, of course, did not share and found himself in emigration already in 1917.

We must pay tribute to this very extraordinary person - if in 1920 he insisted that Russia be represented at the Games only by those who were called "white emigrants" in their homeland, then 4 years later he agreed to participate in them two teams that would personify " new "and" old "Russia. Whatever one may say, but the prince cannot refuse patriotism. In any case, his ideas did not meet with the slightest support in the IOC. De jure, former citizens of Russia who left Russia after the revolution could not be considered representatives of any state at all. Well, the RSFSR and, subsequently, the USSR were not going to recognize the inflated turkeys from the Olympic movement in any case. And who knows what a meeting on the same sports arena between “whites” and “reds” would have led to ?!

I must say that our athletes were actually invited to the Games by the local National Olympic Committees - to Paris in 1924, to Los Angeles in 1932. However, at that time the Soviet Union had a sense of its own dignity - its representatives proudly refused from such invitations, received not on behalf of the IOC and looking somehow not very legitimate and respectable. In order to rise to the podium of the Olympics, the Soviet people had to win the Great Patriotic War and World War II. After that, even the most stubborn haters of our country could not ignore the USSR and turn up their nose from it. The Olympic Committee was created in the Soviet Union in 1951, and in the same year it finally officially became a member of the IOC. The first Olympics with the participation of Soviet athletes took place in 1952 in Helsinki. And from that very moment they turned into a very serious "headache" for the West. The Soviet athletes did not know how to lose and did not want to. And why would they lose? The Soviet system of physical culture and sports, embracing millions, literally "pushed" talented children and adolescents, future Olympic champions and champions to the top.

Let me remind myself: participating in 18 Olympic Games (equal number of summer and winter), our athletes never fell below the second place in the overall "medal" standings, and more often than not they were the first in it! In total, they brought home 1204 Olympic medals, 473 of which were gold. 44 Soviet athletes have won Olympic gold three or more times. The main opponent of our team at every game was the representatives of the United States, who during the same time earned a little more medals. But how honest?

There is every reason to believe that the real reason for the boycott of the 80 Olympics, undertaken by the United States and about fifty other Western countries, was not at all the introduction of Soviet troops into Afghanistan, as was officially stated. The Soviet Union had to survive at any cost from the Olympic movement - that's why everything was started. It is quite natural that representatives of all socialist countries (with the exception of China and Yugoslavia, who were in opposition to the USSR) refused to participate in the next Olympics, held in 1984 in Los Angeles. It should be noted that initially the leadership of the USSR was not going to "sink to Carter's level," but over time it became clear that the United States was doing everything to make the arrival of our team to Los Angeles impossible. Well, after the local government demonstratively refused to provide security guarantees to athletes from socialist countries, it became clear that serious provocations were being prepared at the Games, if not a repetition of the 1972 tragedy in Munich, where 11 members of the national team were killed by terrorists right in the Olympic village Israel.

It was then that the leadership of the Soviet Union decided to completely refuse to participate in the Olympics. Is it a coincidence that after this incident, and not in 1980, the International Olympic Committee made changes to its regulations, according to which a country that decided to boycott the Games was threatened with expulsion from the IOC and disqualification for several Olympics ?! Something suggests that new provocations against the USSR and its athletes would not have to wait long. The Soviet Union was not “thrown out” of the Olympic movement solely for the reason that already in 1991 it ceased to exist.

On this occasion, I cannot help but recall the words that "the boycott of the Olympic Games is a conspiracy to politicize them and his idea is completely alien to the spirit of America." Do you know where and when the president of the US National Olympic Committee, Avery Brandedge, pronounced them? In 1936, in the Third Reich ... In 1980, his statement was apparently forgotten. The Americans did not boycott the Nazis, but in order to excommunicate the Olympics, as such, the Russians who were constantly taking away the Olympic "gold" from under their noses by "alien to the American spirit" measures, they did not disdain at all.

All that disgusting, having nothing to do with sports and the principles of fair competitive struggle, fuss that is happening today around the Olympic Games is only a logical continuation of their history, which, if you cleanse it of gloss and omissions, looks rather unattractive. Whether our country should continue to take part in this increasingly dubious action is a big question.
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  1. +7
    24 July 2021 09: 52
    All actions on our part require political will, but there is simply no such will. There are only "red lines" left, which can be moved aside indefinitely.
  2. +2
    24 July 2021 10: 47
    Over the past 30 years, Russian athletes have been so openly mocked that I have long suggested abandoning these Olympics and World Championships. We had to create our own games a long time ago, like the Goodwill Games under the USSR. But our hucksters do not know how to create anything. They only want to sell. In such a form as now, it is not worth participating - definitely!
  3. +1
    24 July 2021 11: 02
    Pierre de Coubertin did not come up with the idea of ​​reviving the Olympic Games in spite of the Germans, but after a trip to America, where the developed sports movement simply amazed him. Sports in the United States still works according to their own system and little depends on the Olympic movement, but it brings a lot of money. The Olympic Games were originally a business project, therefore they disowned politics for tactical reasons, and got into politics from strategic ones. The author of the article is clearly not on friendly terms with history, otherwise he would have named the name of the first Olympic champion in Tsarist Russia, who, by the way, was an official and performed under a pseudonym, since he was ashamed of participating in the Olympics - sports, in the public opinion of those years, was the lot of idlers. It is precisely because of the inability to create leaders of our country out of athletes and it makes no sense to participate in the Olympiads, everyone begins to treat the Olympic Games as the author of the article - why write about sports heroes and their names, when the total number of medals is more important ...
  4. +2
    24 July 2021 12: 26
    The Olympic Games are exactly the same games for sports workers as other championships. I'd rather watch the kids compete!
  5. +4
    24 July 2021 12: 44
    The Olympic Games in Sochi were right - a ski resort and transport infrastructure were built.
    The hosting of the World Cup was wrong, five now empty stadiums were built.
    1. -1
      24 July 2021 14: 50
      Dear steelmaker, is it you who made your name? How is life in Zhmerinka?
  6. +8
    24 July 2021 14: 22
    In recent years, Russian athletes have performed as individuals, without a country and a flag. Shame and disgrace. Such a humiliation! Why lick the back seat of this filthy, American "world community"?
  7. +2
    24 July 2021 19: 57
    It used to be said -O sport, you are the world!, But now it's just wild commerce based on meanness and blood ... It's high time for us to say goodbye to such an organization, and similar ones, where dirty politics prevails over the honor and conscience of the real Olympic Games. It is high time for us to leave such slippery and muddy organizations as the WTO, ECHR, OSCE, PACE and other vipers, and learn to live our own life, without looking back at "partners".
  8. -1
    24 July 2021 20: 16
    Quote: steel maker
    Over the past 30 years, Russian athletes have been so openly mocked that I have long suggested abandoning these Olympics and World Championships. We had to create our own games a long time ago, like the Goodwill Games under the USSR. But our hucksters do not know how to create anything. They only want to sell. In such a form as now, it is not worth participating - definitely!

    In order to judge something, you need to have brains and information. Look at modern "athletes". These scoundrels, playing in clubs, like the devil from incense, avoid the risk of injury, defending the national team. Losing a couple of tens of millions of greens in the name of some kind of rash? Don't you understand that the polls, explicit, implicit, but repeated, undoubtedly revealed the mood of the "elite" from the muscle. And a proposal to hold such games at the official level would have received an official refusal. Do you admit publicly that you are a fool, or are you modestly silent? Sport, or what is left of it, needs to be cleansed. I went to a foreign club - to put the Russian passport on the table and ppppp on all four sides. At least one refused to go under the white flag in the past Olympics? Then why the hell are you acting so stupid?
  9. +1
    24 July 2021 23: 52
    Athletes decide whether to participate or not. Lived. The state, more precisely, the current ones at the helm, have withdrawn themselves (is). And maybe some of the Olympians would like to spit in Benitas' mug, but in the end, due to the lack of a "state" view and a nationally oriented way of thinking, one, abandoned by functionaries for a place, at best, will lose money here ... Russia. Moreover, with the wording "for inadequacy"

    But, it seems, quite recently, someone was petting about amendments to the constitution, family, marriage, national idea ... And then hop and "Benitas" from all the cracks in Ernst and not only. Are the "correctors" blown away?

    ... Oh, it's time to clean up these shit and together with Ernst, talking mustache, and other ... pimp. Isn't it weird to stand next to this, God forgive me, as a gymnast? See for yourself this ... The poured "state figure" in the Duma, everything about Russia, sick, thinks! Head, but through, sorry mua ... Vladivostok!
  10. 0
    24 July 2021 23: 58
    ... here I am about the same ...
  11. +1
    25 July 2021 11: 27
    And, as expected, interest in the Tokyo Olympics in Russia, at least at the minimum level, is how the Russian OK team will perform there - even if the officials have a headache.
  12. 0
    27 July 2021 05: 45
    All this for a long time, or maybe forever. It turns out that you need to be able not only to lose, but also to win. All these tantrums about victory are not possible to watch. There is a film "Olympus of the Spirit". Gle talks about the participants in the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. Front-line soldiers, blockade soldiers, prisoners of the end took part in this Olympics. camps. I remember one moment. When the referee raised the hand of the Soviet boxer, he saw the number on his hand. The judge hugged our fighter, it turns out they were serving in the same camp. Watch this film. And you will see the difference between Soviet sport and the current one.