“The medal Amnesty” announced at the Russian Embassy in the UK bookmaker Paddy Power. Set the visible box with a slot ostensibly for return of Olympic medals. Due to the intentional fault of the inscription рut in – “put inside” – reads like a PUTIN.
The hint is more than transparent – in a recent report by the world doping Agency accused Russia that the doping we supposedly cover literally at the state level. However, Russia for their medal never was and never will be ashamed – be it awards won on the battlefields, whether it’s Olympic gold.
From doping scandals for a reason – President Vladimir Putin has defined it very precisely: the formation of a negative image of the countries and peoples. And an instrument of geopolitical pressure in this case is sport. Orchestrated campaign to discredit Russia in the world of sports includes “stunning revelations”, and constant publications in the media, and the production of documentaries on the subject of doping in Russia, and performances of foreign sports officials and, of course, disproportionately frequent sample doping compared with athletes from other countries.
Closer to the Olympics hysteria got to be too much, foreign gamblers pulled the light trump card – the doubtful testimony of a former head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory of Gregory Rodchenkov.
In the series of provocations of various caliber, fits and minor mischief at the Russian Embassy in the UK. Paddy Power has held a themed photo shoot – supposedly repentant athletes with tragic faces posing for the box to then put in his own coin… Blasphemous spectacle – after all, every Olympian knows, it is impossible to give up that hard-won by years of training, blood and sweat.
And tomorrow – July 21 – the decision will be made whether to go our athletes to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. As you know, the coin has two sides, which we will demonstrate at this time – sports or still political?
