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(FinalCall.com) - After Brazil hosts the Olympics in 2016 what continent will have the distinction of never having hosted the Games? Here’s a hint, historically its distance running success in the Olympics is unparalleled and it has the first double amputee to reach the semifinals. The continent is Africa and the double amputee is South Africa’s Oscar Pistorius.Various reports name South Africa as the only African country with the infrastructure and resources necessary to host such a monumental event.
But they then go on to highlight “major weaknesses” that would prevent South Africa’s selection including the country’s “high crime rate.”. Kenya’s David Lekuta Rudisha crosses the line in the Men’s 800m fi nal breaking the World Record in the Olympic Stadiumin the London Summer Olympics on August 9. Photo: AP Photo/Mark AllanThere appears to be a double standard.
Various nations “competing” with South Africa touted its high crime rate as a reason to disqualify it from sponsoring the Games. But Chicago’s increasing violent crime rate didn’t preclude it from putting in a bid to host the 2012 Olympics.
And though Chicago didn’t win the bid a high crime rate never appeared to be a determining factor.To the South African naysayers, the precedence for Olympic sponsorship has already been set.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) dropped a bombshell on Dec. 5 when they announced that they were outright banning Russia from participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The ban comes after the IOC found Russia guilty of running an extensive, state-sponsored doping program and interfering with the anti-doping lab in the 2014 Sochi games. The punishment is definitely harsh, but.
Not even close.As recently as 2016, countries have been barred from participating in the Olympic games. In Rio de Janeiro after the country passed a law allowing interference with national sports federations, an IOC 'no-no,' according to The Washington Post. Kuwaiti athletes were able to participate as neutrals under the Olympic flag — similar to stipulations for Russian athletes, though admittedly the requirements for Russia are much stricter due to the extent to which the country went to cheat in the 2014 games.Similarly, in Sochi for corruption, according to the BBC.But the practice of banning individual countries isn't anything new. Joe Scarnici/Getty Images Sport/Getty Images In fact, it dates back almost 100 years.The 1920 games in Antwerp, Belgium — right after World War I ended —, according to the Olympic Games website. What they fail to mention, however, is who was barred from participating. According to Canadian Olympic Team's official website, — Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey — were not invited to the games.Similarly, Germany and Japan, the Axis powers in World War II, were.The longest ban probably goes to South Africa, which was banned from competing in any Olympic games for. In 1963, the committee announced that South Africa had until the end of the year to address racial discrimination in their country, or they would not be allowed to participate in the 1964 games in Tokyo.
South Africa wasn't invited to participate until 1991 — just before the 1992 games in Barcelona. The (kind of) country formerly known as Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe, was also banned from the Olympics in 1972. Rhodesia was formed as a whites-only government, and their racist politics led the IOC to outright, four days before the games began — thanks to uproarious protests from African countries. The country was dissolved and reformed as Zimbabwe before they had had a chance to compete again.Plenty of other countries have been banned at various times in Olympic history, as well, which banned women from participating, and so was banned, in turn, by the IOC from the 2000 Sydney games. After the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan was invited back to the 2004 games in Athens. The IOC has a habit of using bans to respond to social ills.This is perhaps why they felt it necessary to not only ban Russia, but to pass other sanctions, including a $15 million fine (which will reimburse the IOC for the investigation and contribute to the creation of an Independent Testing Authority).
The IOC is making no secret of the fact that they are trying to send a message about doping.Several officials associated with the 2014 doping scandal have been banned from participating in the Olympic games ever again. Numerous Russian athletes who were found to have been using performance enhancing drugs have had their medals vacated. Russian athletes who wish to participate in the 2018 games may only do so after going through a rigorous application process, proving they're clean, and they, under the Olympic flag. It may seem harsh on the face, but according to the IOC, Russia's cheating is 'unprecedented.'
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Russia has been found guilty of funding a, the likes of which the world has never seen. The Russian Ministry of Sport was additionally found to have put together a team that, in the dead of night during the 2014 games, 'tampered with more than 100 urine samples to throughout the course of competition,' per The New York Times.After the IOC announced that it would ban Russia from the 2018 games, quite a few Russian athletes and government officials said the, per both The Washington Post and The Moscow Times. For example, reportedly said, “I don’t know how other athletes will react, but I haven’t trained for years to go somewhere to not compete on behalf of my country. It’s not sportslike to go to the Olympics just in order to be there.'
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Said of Russia's cheating, 'This was an unprecedented attack on the integrity of the Olympic Games and sport.' He called the sanctions 'proportional' to the crime, 'while protecting the clean athletes.'