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Russia Starts Their Own Olympics

Published on Fri, Mar 22nd 2024 News & Politics Rectangular HD

Russia has started their own Olympic Games called the “Friendship Games” and athletes will compete for cash prizes in addition to medals. This is happening because Russia is perpetually banned from the Olympics and has had 43 Olympic medals confiscated in the last 20 years because they literally cheat constantly. The Olympics has called for all sports and countries to avoid the Friendship games. They also condemned the games saying that they deliberately circumvent sports organizations and show total disrespect for the global anti-doping standards. The Olympics also called out Russia for fully politicizing sport. Russia extended an invite to the whole world at the UN a few months ago, citing Russia’s continued support for “honest and fair competitions”. It’s unclear who’s going to waste their time with this given that they take place just weeks after the actual Olympics this year.

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Produced by: Ben Wheeler, Philip DeFranco
Edited by: Ben Wheeler
Art Department: William Crespo
Writing/Research: Ben Wheeler, Philip DeFranco
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