{"id":1128620,"date":"2021-12-17T13:58:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T18:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128620"},"modified":"2021-12-17T13:58:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T18:58:30","slug":"vladimir-putin-gloats-over-china-invite-to-genocide-games-flaunting-olympics-russia-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vladimir-putin-gloats-over-china-invite-to-genocide-games-flaunting-olympics-russia-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin Gloats over China Invite to Genocide Games, Flaunting Olympics Russia Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvladimir-putin-gloats-over-china-invite-to-genocide-games-flaunting-olympics-russia-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128620&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-164278591.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Russian leader Vladimir Putin effusively accepted an invitation to attend the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics from dictator Xi Jinping this week \u2013 an invite that served as a reminder that Olympic officials banned Russia as a government, and Putin personally, from attending.<\/p>\n<p>Yahoo Sports <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/olympics-putin-russia-ban-xi-150110037.html\">noted<\/a> on Wednesday, following an hours-long video conversation between Putin and Xi, that Putin confirming his presence at the Games would violate International Olympic Committee (IOC) rules had Xi not personally invited him. The IOC banned Russia from competing in the Olympics, and world championship institutions did the same, beginning in 2017 after a Russian athletic team whistleblower revealed that the government had organized a massive conspiracy to give as many as 1,000 athletes performance-enhancing drugs, leading to dozens of global victories now brought into question and potentially disenfranchising honest competitors.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The IOC judgment on the scandal, which many decried at the time for being insufficiently weak to deter similar cheating in the future, banned Russian athletes from flying the flag or using the national anthem and barred Russian politicians from attending Olympic events. The athletes themselves, however, could compete under a white flag and the name \u201cRussian Olympic Committee.\u201d At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the Russian government largely ignored the ban and cheered on the Russian athletes as if the IOC had done nothing.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing ban includes the 2022 Beijing Olympics, already denounced as a disgrace by human rights activists for honoring China, a country currently engaging in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/09\/tribunal-olympics-host-china-beyond-a-reasonable-doubt-guilty-of-genocide\/\">genocide<\/a>. As Yahoo Sports noted, the Court for Arbitration of Sports (CAS), which determined the punishment for the Russian team, \u201cprohibited displays of the Russian flag on uniforms or at ceremonies. It also stipulated that Russian government officials would not be permitted \u2018to participate in or attend\u2019 the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CAS offered a loophole, however, that Xi embraced: \u201cThis order does not apply to a government representative who is invited to a specified event by the Head of State or Prime Minister [or equivalent] of the host country.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Kremlin first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/19\/china-invites-vladimir-putin-but-not-joe-biden-to-beijing-winter-olympics\/\">confirmed<\/a> that Xi had invited Putin to attend the event in mid-November, claiming that Putin still needed to \u201csettle\u201d his schedule before official confirmation that he would accept the invite. Putin allegedly received a second, more ceremonial invite while speaking to Xi directly during a virtual meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident [sic] Xi underscored President Putin\u2019s visit\u2002to China and attendance at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics in over a month\u2019s time as a concrete action to support China\u2019s work as the host,\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfa.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/zxxx_662805\/202112\/t20211215_10470186.html\">Chinese Foreign Ministry<\/a>. \u201cThe two Presidents will have exchanged visits to Olympic Games held in each other\u2019s countries, and the two countries will hold the Year of Sports Exchange in the next two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/rr\/main\/olympics\/dates.html\">hosted<\/a> the Winter Olympics in the city of Sochi in 2014, the first hosting honor bestowed to the country since the collapse of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin <a href=\"http:\/\/en.kremlin.ru\/events\/president\/news\/67364\">published<\/a> a partial transcript of the Putin-Xi conversation that depicted the two authoritarians as extremely friendly. Putin reportedly told Xi that he was \u201cdelighted\u201d to have an opportunity to speak to him and that he was looking forward to being in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do hope that next February, we will finally be able to meet in person in Beijing. As we agreed, you and I will talk, and then we will participate in the Winter Olympics opening ceremony,\u201d Putin gloated. \u201cThank you for the invitation to attend this important event.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI would like to note that we invariably support each other in every aspect of international sports cooperation, including in condemning any attempts to politicize sports and the Olympic movement,\u201d Putin reportedly added. \u201cI have no doubt that the upcoming Winter Games will be held at the highest level. They know how to do things in China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cpoliticize sports\u201d remark appeared to be primarily a reference to calls from human rights groups and victims of Chinese regime abuses to boycott the event. China is currently engaging in a genocide of the Uyghur people of East Turkistan, fueled by the establishment of over 1,000 concentration camps where survivors say they have endured extreme torture, gang rape, slavery, and indoctrination into communism. Among China\u2019s other crimes are the mass sterilization of women belonging to ethnic minorities, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/06\/14\/china-claims-miracle-surge-organ-donors\/\">trafficking<\/a> in the organs of political prisoners, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/04\/27\/anti-christian-crackdown-communist-china-demolishes-yet-another-church\/\">bulldozing<\/a> Christians alive.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>No country has accepted the challenge to boycott the Olympics, with most claiming the athletes\u2019 privilege of participating in the event overrides the human rights of China\u2019s victims. The administration of President Joe Biden has attempted to claim that it is engaging in a \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d by not sending politicians to the event, but China has laughed off the claim, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/30\/china-biden-diplomatic-boycott-of-olympics-impossible-because-u-s-diplomats-not-invited\/\">noting<\/a> the politicians allegedly engaging in the \u201cboycott\u201d weren\u2019t even invited.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC banned the Russian Olympic team from participating using its national flag in 2017 through 2022 in response to the discovery that over 1,000 athletes had illegally used performance-enhancing drugs. Whistleblower&nbsp;Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of Russia\u2019s anti-doping program,\u201d revealed that the Russian government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/feb\/02\/winter-olympics-russian-doping-ban-pyeongchang\">sponsored<\/a> a program to drug the athletes, revealing a trove of documented evidence that Russian officials used tactics like swapping out athletes\u2019 urine for untainted samples.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was Rodchenkov who secretly developed a powerful cocktail of drugs with a very short detection window, that he called \u2018The Duchess,\u2019 which was dissolved in alcohol (Chivas whisky for the men, and Vermouth for the women) and then swished in athletes\u2019 mouths and spat out,\u201d the&nbsp;<em>Guardian<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/feb\/02\/winter-olympics-russian-doping-ban-pyeongchang\">relayed<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBack in the days of East Germany, they doped their athletes in every sport except sailing, then known as yachting,\u201d Olympic historian David Wallechinsky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/06\/russians-are-winning-in-tokyo-olympics-even-though-russia-is-banned-.html\">told<\/a> CNBC this year. \u201cThe Russians went beyond that: they doped sailors and curlers, of all things. \u2026 It was so extensive, it was outrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was an unprecedented attack on the integrity of the Olympic Games and sport,\u201d Thomas Bach, the president of the IOC, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/olympics\/2017\/12\/05\/russia-olympic-committee-banned-2018-winter-olympics-doping-ioc-decision\">said<\/a> at the time. \u201cThe IOC Executive Board, after following due process, has issued proportional sanctions for this systemic manipulation while protecting the clean athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outraged members of the sports community disagreed that the punishment was \u201cproportional,\u201d as Russian nationals could still compete in the Olympics under the modified \u201cRussian Olympic Committee\u201d name and Moscow has clearly disregarded the IOC trying to sideline it. For example, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova published a video this summer promoting the not-Russian team at the Tokyo Olympics, featuring her pretending to practice boxing before attending her regular press briefing. Over 300 Russian athletes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/06\/russians-are-winning-in-tokyo-olympics-even-though-russia-is-banned-.html\">participated<\/a> in the Tokyo Summer Olympics as part of the not-Russian team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CRv2jLmozN0\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.27272727272727\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAthletes now think that you are better off cheating or getting your nation to establish a doping system because even if it is discovered, the consequences are minimal,\u201d British IOC member Adam Pengilly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/feb\/02\/winter-olympics-russian-doping-ban-pyeongchang\">told<\/a> the&nbsp;<em>Guardian<\/em> in 2018<em>.<\/em> \u201cOr, if you don\u2019t want to cheat, avoid elite sport like the plague.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639654455979000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1fRfb_h2E6ZdmFpXjJbORU\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639654455979000&amp;usg=AOvVaw030ychS5E25vfDOdsWnlWi\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian leader Vladimir Putin effusively accepted an invitation to attend the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics from dictator Xi Jinping this week \u2013 an invite that served as a reminder that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}