Scandals were accompanied by almost all of the Games after the revived Olympic movement.
When speakers our Central channels, and gleefully tell from the screen about how great it is that the Russian athletes still go to Rio de Janeiro and emotion assert that de, a fellow of the IOC, is that we were made, involuntarily feel some vague sense of unease.
And even shame, all of us, not only our wonderful workers-athletes, but also the entire country, publicly humiliated, insulted, accused of corruption and forgery, exposed in the media, public flogging, without providing absolutely no concrete evidence, and we now hastily wiped spit on and rejoice that we were allowed into the hall of world sport…
You need to understand the current attack international sports officials and the Western media against Russia proves that sport to say, have always been part of a larger international policy.
By the way, it was well understood in Ancient Greece where the Olympic games invented. There during the Games stop all the wars, thereby making the sporting event in the element of peace. And praising their Olympic heroes, crowning them with Laurel wreaths, the Greeks knew that this contributes to the unity of the nation, and, therefore, to strengthen the state and increase the prestige of the government. And what is all this if not politics?
This lesson is well learned then Hitler. This year marks 80 years of the 1936 Olympics, which were held in the capital of Nazi Germany. At this time the country already had adopted the Nuremberg laws of “blood quantum” and it was clear what Hitler’s regime, but that the IOC “did not notice”. During the voting, when choosing a place to host the Games in 1936 in Berlin received 43 votes, while his rival, Barcelona’s only 16.
In other words, sports officials, mainly European, voted in favor of the state, which is actively preparing to start a world war. This suggests that over the past 80 years, the thinking of the European bureaucracy has not changed, and special insight is no different.
But Hitler, supported by the European sports officials, was able to use the Olympics in Berlin to strengthen the image of his regime in the best, especially because athletes Germany was defeated. He personally visited almost all the competitions in athletics. Came on the closing ceremony. And when the orchestra played the melody “Game over”, the audience in unison at the huge stadium stood up and, pulling up hands in a Nazi salute, and began in ecstasy to chant: “Sieg Heil! Our Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, Sieg Heil!”
Hitler using the Olympics, with the active support of European and American sports officials, you got what you wanted. The next day, “new York times” welcomed the return of Germany to the family of “civilized Nations”. After that this “civilized” country has done, you know…
By the way, the idea of the torch of the Olympic flame was first “run-in” at the Games in Germany. By analogy with the night a torchlight procession of storm troopers. Even then, however, the IOC did not see anything special about it.
In Germany, in accordance with the “new order” all “non-Aryans”, even Champions, on the eve of the Olympic games was removed from all clubs and the national team. However, when Berlin came to the Commission the IOC, led by the American Avery Bendegem, it all this “noticing”. How I didn’t see that in this country for over 50 thousand political prisoners languished in prisons and concentration camps. E. Brender returned to the United States, said publicly that the boycott “is alien to the spirit of America, the idea of a conspiracy to politicize the Olympic games” and “Jews must understand that they will not be able to use the Games as a weapon in the fight against the Nazis.”
In a great relationship with the Nazis was the founder of the Olympic movement of today Baron de Coubertin. The Fuhrer had personally sent him 10 thousand Reichsmarks to “strengthen the Olympic movement.” And he willingly accepted.
In August 1935, de Coubertin visited Germany, was delighted with “the progress of sport”, and then speaking on state radio, called Hitler one of the best creative spirits of our age. Soon the Baron had received from Germany a lifetime pension for contribution to the world.
Political scandals were accompanied by almost all of the Games after the end of the XIX century revived the Olympic movement. Games 1956 in Melbourne boycotted the three groups of countries – Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon in protest at the Suez crisis, the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland in protest against the actions of Soviet troops in Hungary and China in protest against the fact that the IOC recognized the Olympic Committee of Taiwan.
Games in Seoul boycotted North Korea, Cuba, Ethiopia and Nicaragua. And at the Olympic games in Munich was a tragedy: Palestinian terrorists took hostage members of the Israeli athletic delegation. In response to a belated and ill-considered actions of the Bavarian police, the terrorists opened fire and killed the hostages.
At the Games in London, announced a boycott Argentina because of the conflict with Britain over the Falkland Islands. But President Alexander Lukashenko, who is concurrently the head of the Belarusian national Olympic Committee, was denied accreditation.
When the venue of the Olympic games 1980 was elected to the West began a fierce campaign to do whatever it takes to prevent her carrying out. In the US, Australia and some other countries it was the slogan: “Move from Moscow summer Games of 1980.” Claims made at the time the Olympic organizers, was of a political nature (the possibility of a ban on entry into the Union sportsmen and tourists from “undesirable” countries future “conspiracy” athletes of the socialist countries, media censorship, violation of human rights in the Soviet Union, the persecution of “dissidents”, etc.) and economic-household (use the Olympics to strengthen the Soviet economy and establishing contacts with Western firms, the lack of good service, problems with hotels and restaurants, long lines, etc.). And when the Soviet Union managed many of these problems, the United States decided, under the pretext of protest against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan simply to boycott the Olympics in Moscow, to which was joined a number of countries-supporters.
By the way, and then during the Game in Los Angeles the Soviet Union, the Americans retaliated in the same coin.
Now the Olympics – again a political weapon. Adopted a new tool to fight political opponent – doping. Although it is known that the number of cases of detection of doping in Russia takes place only in the third ten of the countries participating in the Olympics, the main attack was directed against her. Could we win this battle against a cohesive team of Western officials, functionaries of international sports organisations, a massive offensive in the Western media? Unlikely. We – lost. But this does not mean that we should sprinkle ashes on his head and stop fighting.
We were attacked and will attack, the cold war continues and it will go a long time.
It is necessary to fight and survive. Do not just to have fun on screen and pretend like nothing happened, as if our athletes go to Brazil for a joyful sports festival. They go to battle. At the Games it would be very difficult and hard. Let’s support them!
