Boston Marathon bans runners from Russia, Belarus

Just like strava

Lol. Shouldn’t I first be an American to be keeping track of how your last President classifies other countries? Americans… so exceptional.

It’s their choice - of course if they banned women the race would not be run and it will be over as an event, and that’s not much like committing war crimes. But if you don’t like that the BAA banned the Russians, don’t run it and don’t support it.

The Cancel culture pundit in here guys. It's definitely NOT the stupidest political posturing of all time to cry foul like a 5 year old child any time your feelings get the best of you.

I hold a US passport and another passport from where I was born and grew up. My wife also holds a US passport and another passport from the country that she grew up in. We are originally from different countries and met at grad school in the US. We both obtained US citizenship after being sponsored to get Permanent Residency through our employers. Our two kids hold three passports, the US passport, and passports from each of our countries. If for some reason one of those three countries were to be banned from entering the Boston Marathon, they would just use a passport that isn't banned. Pretty simple really. Oh, and there are no Russian passports involved with us!

One thing Republicans and Faux News always does is "What aboutism...". "Why focus on the Ukraine, what about blah blah blah" You can see it in so many posts. Who the heck is posting this stuff?

What about China, Syria, Florida????? Cancel culture, etc. etc.

Look, the vast majority of the countries in the world are united in opposing the war crimes the Russians are committing in Ukraine. The main weapon the free world has is cordoning off Russia from the rest of the world. That's the price they pay, and hopefully the citizens of Russia (those not already in prison) will find the strength to remove Putin from power. It would be great to see him tried for war crimes. If not, he can have a show on Faux.

I was just watching a replay of the Rome marathon. As each wave started, they were showered with Ukraine-colored confetti. The commentators pointed out that there were some runners from Ukraine. Unfortunately, one of the registered Ukrainians never made it to Rome, having been killed by the Russians before he made it to Rome.

It's not just the BAA, Biden or the U.S., people. It's the free countries of the world. Why the hell are American conservatives so hand-in-hand with Russia????? Can't you take a principled stand for once, instead of kowtowing to party politics?

As a member of the BAA I support this, I guess you’re fine with allowing Russian in the Olympics too ?

Because it means beating the Democrats/Liberals/anyone who doesnt allign 100% with their beliefs. It's more about "winning" and retaining power than it is about governing or anything else.

just look at the recent supreme court nomination. only three republicans voted to confirm an otherwise fully perfectly reasonable choice. the same party refused to allow obama any hearings for obama's pick(s) then later didnt think Amy Barrett's personal views would influence her decisions but sure as hell made a stink about anything Ms Jackson remotely even thought about...she likes waffles instead of pancakes, the horror!!!!

Remind me how many Democrats voted to confirm the last 3 republican nominees.

Good. I love seeing the world stand up and start punishing the citizens for what their country did.

If they want to start a war in some desert cesspool no one cares about go for it but invade a country that matters in the civilized world and have consequences.

And what year were the New York Yankees integrated? How about the Red Sox? (even later). The racism didn't begin at the Mason-Dixon line. Learn your history.

They could allow them to run with Ukrainian's shooting at them.

I would like to see the list of folks in U.S. who were for U.S. invading Iraq, 2003 and compare that list to folks in U.S. whom are for U.S. fighting a proxy war in Ukraine for Ukrainians. If you believe it is justified to ban Russian athletes for Russia's involvement in Ukraine, then you also believe nations would have been justified banning U.S. athletes due to U.S. invading Iraq, 2003. Same goes for 2011 U.S./C.I.A./U.S. State Department assassination of Muammar Gaddafi.

What a county’s government does is often the opposite of what that country’s people want done. The vast majority of people around the world are against the war crimes being committed by the Ukrainians and believe that NATO aggression and expansion only serves the interests of the pentagon and the MIC. Most are smart enough to see that China forming a military alliance with Mexico and installing nukes alone the southern border, for example, would be 100% antagonistic and not something the pentagon would tolerate. Only through American exceptionalism might one believe that only Americans are permitted to defend themselves.

WRT the rest of your drivel… you are simply misinformed about the situation. I wonder how that could have happened?

Punishing private Russian citizens who are runners and have nothing to do with Putin’s invasion, accomplishes what, exactly?

I guess you must also think sentencing guidelines for convicted pedophiles is far too harsh?

Telling them that the world doesn't approve of their governments actions. Unless you think that shelling a train station, which killed 50 people, full of civilians and children is ok.

And in Wednesday’s decision by the Boston Athletic Association to ban runners from Russia and Belarus from competing in this year’s Boston Marathon, we recall the words of Otter, one of the fraternity characters from “National Lampoon’s Animal House”: “I think this situation absolutely calls for a really futile and stupid move on someone’s part.

nytimes.com

The Boston Marathon’s Brainless Bigotry

By Bret Stephens

The race’s organizers pull an Otter.

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I was just about to post this. You know you've gone too far as a liberal media outlet when NYTimes is criticizing you!