• Amanda@aggregatet.org
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    5 months ago

    How is there no mechanism to remove him? I mean, ideally he shouldn’t have been selected in the first place but under the insanely charitable assumption that it was sloppiness and not active negligence that recruited him.

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      5 months ago

      On what grounds would he be removed though? Is there a reason countries shouldn’t select athletes that have been to prison?

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        5 months ago

        On the grounds that the Olympic Games is mostly a propaganda event and he’s absolutely terrible propaganda?

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          5 months ago

          Well on that same vein, the IOC unilaterally disqualifying a country’s chosen athlete is likely to be even more politically problematic.

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      5 months ago

      Isn’t volleyball a team sport? How are his teammates okay with being on a team with a child molester? How are his opponents okay with playing in a game against him? Even if there’s no official mechanism, couldn’t all the players just be like “Nah, fuck that, he goes or I do”. The only time I’ve every knowingly ran into one I couldn’t have been civil towards them if I wanted to let alone actually work together on something.