The Russia issue in sports has been simplified: To ban or not to ban, that is the question
It is helpful, for the purpose of evaluating these bans, to place prominent sporting events on a scale. On one end: events where athletes clearly represent their country. The Olympics. The Paralympics. The World Championships. On the other end: events where athletes either compete as individuals or for professional teams rather than countries.
Bruce Berglund, an expert on Russia at Gustavus Adolphus College, points out that international sporting sanctions have been an effective tool in at least one significant case: during South Africa’s apartheid era. But the events that led to world sporting organizations banning South African participation were different in one important way.
Russian sporting success “plays into this delusion that Russians are able to maintain—at least if you just look at the sports news—that Russia still has a normal, respected place in the world,” Berglund says. “The Western idea that an individual is representing [only] themself and their club—this is not how Russians view their athletes performing internationally.” Putin has said that himself. In 2000 he proclaimed that “victories in sport do more to cement the nation than 100 political slogans.
If you boiled Putin’s propaganda down to two simple objectives, they would be to promulgate: a) the idea of Russian supremacy and b) the conviction that the West does not want Russia to succeed. If Medvedev wins Wimbledon, then yes, Putin can use that to promote the notion of a mighty Russia. But if all Russians are banned from Wimbledon? He can use that even“Preventing Russian athletes from performing isn’t going to change his policy in Ukraine,” says Schmidt. “It’s going to make him angry.
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