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Hungarian government wants Russians to participate on the Olympics
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The Olympics should be about sports and sportspeople, not politics, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s foreign minister said on Tuesday during a visit to Fukuoka, Japan, adding that the losers of any Olympic boycott were sportspeople who trained hard throughout their lives and had nothing to do with political decisions.
“At a meeting with Ng Ser Miang, vice-president of the International Olympic Committee, we discussed the benefits of sports as a tool for peace and separating sports from geopolitics,” Szijjártó said on Facebook. He said that a fully inclusive Olympics may greatly advance the peaceful settlement of conflicts, including the war in Ukraine.
Szijjártó noted that the boycott of communist countries during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics had robbed more than 100 Hungarian sportspeople of a chance to prove themselves. “We Hungarians not only talk about sport’s power to create peace but also act on it, and it was in this vein that we offered an opportunity to the Ukrainian female handball national team to play a world championships qualifier and to the Belarusian football national team to play a European championships qualifier in Hungary,” he said. “And we continue to offer a venue for sports events that cannot be held in their original location because of the war.”
Russia has already been banned from participation under its’ flag due to repeated widespread violations of doping bans. This country is now behaving in a Satanic manner killing Ukrainian civilians on a daily basis with incessant bombing. They have abducted 800,000 children from Ukraine who were given to Russian families which is the specific war crimes charge the International Criminal Court has leveled against them. They are blackmailing the world by cutting off Ukrainian grain supply needed to feed hundreds of millions of people in Africa and the Middle East threatening them with misery and starvation. These people are barbarian Orcs who are not fit to participate in the Olympics. Shame on Orban. Shame on Fidesz support of Russia.