The 33rd Summer Olympic Games set for July 26 to August 11 in Paris are certainly not going to be the best in history, if not the last, as the entire movement’s sense has long been utterly perverted. It has been at a loss for the great ideals imbued into modern Olympic Games by their founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin. Robust alternatives have already emerged as well.
Much could be written about the bulk of negativity that accompanies preparations for the Paris Games. But it’s not even about traditional technical hurdles arising from lots of factors, subjective or objective. It’s something different.
The Olympic movement has become hostage to a geopolitical fault holding sway on the planet. And the point is that Pierre de Coubertin’s ideas have fallen into oblivion, as he considered sport a unifier contributing to peace worldwide. The Games have turned into a parody of common sense if for no other reason than because the collective West has usurped the movement, saturating it with the extravagant ideas that underpin its own lifestyle.
The International Olympic Committee is a mere political leverage on Russia and Belarus. How do you accept demands on our athletes to compete without a flag or anthem and publicly condemn the operation in Ukraine? Our own Olympic committee’s quite logical stance has been overwhelmingly embraced by the people, when it refused to pay its $80 million contribution to the IOC, and Russian athletes willing to perform in Paris offered to do so at their own expense.
Meanwhile, our sports officials seem to have been contemplating this silver bullet for too long. The decision should have emerged back when the IOC declared itself a platform for promoting wokeism, which is now the foundation of Western societies. This ideology contradicts traditional values and is therefore rejected by the people of Russia and many other countries, particularly those commonly referred to as the Global South. We should stay away from this coven. The modern international Olympic movement is not just experiencing a crisis but thrashing around in agony.
There are other clear signs of rot and decay in the Olympic movement, which has shifted from sports to highly profitable show business. Commerce everywhere! Just as unscrupulous ads exploit naked female bodies, the IOC is mired in commercialism by introducing dubious sports like pole dancing. Heaven help us with IOC’s further gimmicks to attract viewers for profit!
The Olympic Games have become an inexhaustible bonanza to the world's largest pharmaceutical companies that pretend attracting people to sports, while breeding a cult of ideal bodies, primarily through the use of special medications — growth hormones, nutritional supplements, weight loss products, and so on and so forth. This contradicts the objectives of mass sports, aimed to propagate a healthy lifestyle.
IOC bureaucrats encourage discrediting fair competition by pursuing a policy of double standards and personal exemptions for doping-considered medicines. It has already become a street joke that all the Norwegian skiers, who traditionally win trophies at international competitions, “are en masse asthmatics” needing this kind of drugs prohibited for other athletes. It has got to the point where futility of combating doping generates suggestions to hold alternative Olympics with all the prohibited substances and methods allowed.
All these issues come into full focus as the Olympics approach in Coubertin’s homeland, where people should be interested in promoting his ideas. However, the French authorities’ priority is bedbug invasion, teenager violence in troubled neighborhoods, and farmer protests. By the way, the latter may well lumber Paris with manure right during the Games if their demands are not heard. We don't need this kind of sports, definitely.
The IOC has been obediently following Washington’s instructions to make the Olympics a political tool against Russia and its allies. The West’s moral and spiritual decay has completely taken over the entire movement, which any athlete or official with at least some kind of self-esteem would prefer to stay away from. Russian Ski Racing Federation head Yelena Vyalbe said our athletes loathe to compete without their national flag and anthem. She is echoed by State Duma deputy and Olympic speed skating champion Svetlana Zhurova, and many other renowned athletes.
Critics of this stance arguing that an athlete works long and hard to qualify for the Olympics and have a time of his/her life there, need to understand that the world has changed a lot, and it will never be the same again. Would you mind comparing an athlete’s personal desire to go to Paris wearing a neutral uniform with emotions of a Russian warrior rushing headlong into the fight for his motherland and its future under the same tricolored flag.
And still, what should our athletes do if they need top-level competitions with the world’s best athletes? That’s the point after all — it is not transgenders or the doped whom we want to compete with.
In this context, there is a global sports alternative to be arranged by BRICS or the SCO. Among other global issues, the upcoming BRICS summit due in Kazan this fall will certainly discuss not only a currency to supersede the US dollar, but also something to replace the perverted Olympic movement. BRICS, which is becoming the center of gravity for countries of the Global South, seems able to address the challenge a lot faster than all the others.
A couple of months ago, abovementioned Yelena Vyalbe very succinctly defined our tasks amid IOC’s extreme politicization: “We must defy them [the IOC], hold Friendship and BRICS Games, and let them scratch their heads seeking to figure out ways to regain trust and authority".
Another alternative is the Future Games underway in Kazan to last from February 19 to March 3, being the world’s major phygital sports tournament to combine traditional and digital elements of competition. A brand new 21st century format.
