Mariya Lasitskene

Recent results haven't been very good. But her career was pretty much destroyed by the ban on Russia, likely lost all motivation. Very sad seeing her crying on a Russian TV interview.

Would likely have still been medal competitive over the last few years, but she's getting older so unfortunately it looks like her career is finished. A great champion though!

She is a coward who won't speak out against the Russian invasion. Not the kind of person we want at the Olympics. Not the kind of athlete people should be celebrating.

Lol.. I wanna see you doing this with family still in russia. They would go after them..

How many US athletes spoke against USA invasion in multiple countries?

The IOC and World Athletics has done her and her career so dirty. She won world champ in 2015 but was barred from competing at the Olympics 2016 because of the whole Russian doping fiasco. She was the favorite for the gold. Came back to competition in 2017 winning her second world championship gold. Won gold again in Doha and then finally Tokyo. Then after that her career was destroyed by the Russian ban after the war. She’s one of the best if not the best high jumper in history but she was punished over and over again over things that she had no control over. For people who are saying that she should speak out against the war, are you going to help her when she and her family are sentenced to 20 years in the Siberian gulag for doing so? This is why it’s important to separate sport from politics. Poor girl.

We were also robbed of potentially a great rivalry between her and Mahuchikh (which is ironic since she's Ukrainian). I've no doubt that age would have been Mariya's downfall but between 2021-2024 we could have seen some epic duels.

The rich, wealthy and privileged who own the means of production, the media, the war machines are not at war with each other. They routinely bomb and slaughter people all year round while pretending they hate each other.

Let me tell you something! Wars have nothing to do with what they say on the tin! They are likely Human Eugenics performed for the benefit of humanity by weeding out the lowest human classes.

Hence the genocide of various cultures/peoples has been done for Progress. But they have to lie about it, and use people's tendency to tribalism to hide behind. That US peasants hate Russian peasants, and US billionaires hate Russian billionaires. When the truth is Billionaires and the higher classes regard it as their Godly duty to manage humanity by doing some "human pruning" on occasion.

One clear example would be US conscription during the Vietnam war, where confirmed retards from schooling were conscripted (forced to run into fields of landmines to get rid of them). Over 200,000 were sent with no other purpose than human sacrifice dressed up as patriotism.

Nobody rich ever fights in wars, although more famous types likely are allowed to lie about military service to keep "morale" up. Actors for example.

Am I a genius Momma?! I'm on top of the world Ma!! Thank you LetsRun for saving my life!

There are multiple layers to this issue, and certainly it is not as simple as 'Can Mariya compete as a neutral athlete?' Skipping the question of 'Is Mariya still an army officer?' To which likely only her family know the answer, the Russian government declared that any Russians competing as neutrals in Paris were traitors. Imagine the implications.

There is actually a far more major fundamental overriding issue which permeates international sport. Although the Olympics was created so as to encourage warring nations to temporarily lay down their arms, and compete together in an atmosphere of reconciliation, worldwide nations have universally elected to take a converse view and utilise sport as a political pawn.

Historically the U.S.A. a world leader has always held a neurotic hate for communism, and even though Russia is no longer communist it cannot be bullied, hence the U.S.A's hate festers so it is hard to imagine a new age emerging where it is not having a go at Russia over drug taking, war, or the way its athletes tie their shoe laces.

Many countries go to war, including the U.S.A., but only Russia gets singled out.

I still remember watching her winning Tokyo gold after failing twice at a lower height, it got me emotional knowing what happened to her in Rio.

Best female high jumper for 7 or 8 years straight and got me interested in high jump (together with Barshim).

Really hope sports and politics can be separated... WA had a "best female high jumper in history" recap a while back and she was not even in the list.

First female high jumper to win 3 consecutive world titles, Olympics gold, 2.06m PB, ...

Sorry for her but it's a great career.

Thank you Mariya

Not true about "Russian goverment declaring "neutral status" athletes as traitors". AFAIK there were tennis players, cyclists and some others. It was officially announced that it was their personal business/decision whether to participate or not. No sanctions. Some still think that Russia of XXI century is the same as USSR in the time of "Uncle Joe".