• FiniteBanjo@feddit.online
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    1 day ago

    Imagine the USA getting kicked out of the Olympics.

    Not even the fucking Nazis got kicked out of the Olympics.

    • rav3n@ttrpg.network
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      20 hours ago

      If American athletes have any self-respect, they’d sit out in protest.

      • Cherry@piefed.social
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        20 hours ago

        Unfortunately sports is too intertwined with big money. It’s unlikely to happen.

        It must be tough to spend so long training, to get to a peak of your passion and then feel the pressure of not parting, not getting a shot at gold, because it clashes with ethics.

        But I suppose the truth is to persue something like this in the first place you had to do a deal with corporate sponsorship so that’s that.

        I am not trying to say years of training overrides ethics, just that it will be a tough choice for a lot, they are only human, trying to do something extraordinary. We continually tell people shoot for the stars.

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      23 hours ago

      In every moment we have a choice, and it’s always worth hoping that with knowing better we will do better.